The Kids

The Kids

by Hannah Lowe
The Kids

The Kids

by Hannah Lowe

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Overview

Winner of the 2021 Costa Book of the Year and the 2021 Costa Poetry Award. Selected as Poetry Book Society Choice for Autumn 2021 and shortlisted for the 2021 T S Eliot Prize.

Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are fictionalised portraits of ‘The Kids’, the students she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s, later bearing witness to her small son learning to negotiate contemporary London.

Across these deeply felt poems, Lowe interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. Social class, gender and race – and their fundamental intersection with education – are investigated with an ever critical and introspective eye. These boisterous and musical poems explore the universal experience of what it is to be taught, to learn and to teach.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780375793
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication date: 12/07/2021
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hannah Lowe was born in Ilford to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father. She has lived in London, Brighton and Santa Cruz, California. She studied American Literature at the Universityof Sussex and has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. She has worked as a teacher of literature, and is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University. She has been poet in residence at Keats House, and in 2020 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. 

 Her pamphlet The Hitcher (The Rialto, 2011) was widely praised. Her first book-length collection Chick (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) won the 2015 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry, and was selected for the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets 2014 promotion. This was followed by two pamphlets, R x (sine wave peak, 2013) and Ormonde (Hercules Editions, 2014), and her family memoir Long Time No See (Periscope, 2015). She also read from Long Time, No See on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in 2015. Her second full-length collection, Chan, was published by Bloodaxe in 2016, followed by a pamphlet, The Neighbourhood (Out-Spoken Press) in 2019. Her third full collection, The Kids (Bloodaxe Books, 2021), was the Poetry Book Society Choice for Autumn 2021. It won the 2021 Costa Poetry Award and went on to be named Costa Book of the Year, and was also shortlisted for the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize.

Table of Contents

The White Dog 8

I

The Register 11

Try, Try, Try Again 12

Queen Bee 13

The Art of Teaching I 14

The Art of Teaching II 15

The Art of Teaching III 16

Technology 17

Sonnet for Vlad 18

The Only English Kid 19

Notes on a Scandal 20

Boy 21

Simile 22

The Sixth-form Theatre Trip 23

Sonnet for the A Level English Literature and Language Poetry Syllabus 24

Red-handed 25

Sonnet for the Punched Pocket 26

Pepys 27

Janine I 28

Janine II 29

The Unretained 30

All Over It 31

Sonnet for Rosie 32

Something Sweet 33

7/7 34

Ricochet 35

British-born 36

II

Mr Presley 38

Mrs Vanuka 39

Blocks 40

She 41

Bethena 42

Étudier 43

Martin and Pam 44

The Only Black Girl 45

Rain Dance 46

The Pitch 47

John I: Pink Humming Bird 48

John II: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf 49

Love 50

So Amazing 51

The Stroke 52

Sonnet for Noah 55

Welling 56

Dear Professor 57

White Roses 58

Daughter 59

House 60

The River 61

Players 62

III

The Sky Is Snowing 64

Skirting 65

Scooting 66

Fire Scissors Drowning 67

The Size of Him 68

Sonnet for Boredom 69

Balloons 70

In H&M 71

Sonnet for Darren 72

Zoom 73

Aretha in the Bath 74

His Books 75

Anjali Mudra 76

Sonnet for Rory with Soap Bubbles 77

Ni hao 78

Kathy, Carla 79

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