{"product_id":"the-kids-paperback","title":"The Kids - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHannah Lowe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHannah 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHannah 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 University of 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Her pamphlet \u003ci\u003eThe Hitcher \u003c\/i\u003e(The Rialto, 2011) was widely praised. Her first book-length collection \u003ci\u003eChick\u003c\/i\u003e (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, \u003ci\u003eR x\u003c\/i\u003e (sine wave peak, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eOrmonde\u003c\/i\u003e (Hercules Editions, 2014), and her family memoir \u003ci\u003eLong Time No See \u003c\/i\u003e(Periscope, 2015). She also read from \u003ci\u003eLong Time, No See\u003c\/i\u003e on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in 2015. Her second full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eChan\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Bloodaxe in 2016, followed by a pamphlet, \u003ci\u003eThe Neighbourhood\u003c\/i\u003e (Out-Spoken Press) in 2019. Her third full collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Kids\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351599399161,"sku":"9781780375793","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bU12MXROTHdKNkx2Wk1hT09GRU1ydz09.webp?v=1769800611","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-kids-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}