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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...

What is a neighbour? What makes a community? In this themed collection, Hannah Lowe focuses on a small urban district, and finds a rich complexity of neighbourliness under extreme pressure. Nowhere is more at stake than the circle of home the author draws around her infant son, who must learn the fragile meanings of the neighbourhood.

Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that took its toll on his physical and mental health. 'Chick' was his gambling nickname.

A poignant memoir of the author's father, 'Chick'. A half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, he worked long hours to support his family, but was also a legendary gambler. The first work of prose from a respected poet. *Also appeared in May Buyer's Notes*

Lowe's second collection follows her widely acclaimed debut, Chick, about her father, a Chinese-Jamaican gambler. Another of his nicknames, Chan also represents the travellers and shapeshifters in these poems.