Chan - Couverture souple

Lowe, Hannah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780372833 ISBN 13 : 9781780372839

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Chan is a mercurial name, representing the travellers and shape-shifters of the poems in this collection. It is one of the many nicknames of Hannah Lowe's Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the Polish emigre card magician Chan Canasta. It is also a name from China, where her grandfather's story begins. Alongside these figures, there's Joe Harriott, the Jamaican alto saxophonist, shaking up 1960s London; a cast of other long-lost family; and a ship full of dreamers sailing from Kingston to Liverpool in 1947 on the SS Ormonde.

Hannah Lowe's second collection follows her widely acclaimed debut, Chick, which took readers on a journey round her father, a gambler who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family.

‘The SS Ormonde arrived in Liverpool from Jamaica one year before the Windrush. Lowe’s pamphlet Ormonde, included in her 2016 collection Chan, resurrects its passengers with a bracing sense of elegy and an astonishing blend of research and imagination … Each poem is a pearl of insight, strung alongside its companions with devastating effect. I cannot read them without being moved to tears.’ - Sara Collins, Novelist, The Guardian (Windrush at 75: books that shaped the black British experience)

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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 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. 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 (Outspoken Press) in 2019. She has been poet in residence at Keats House, and in 2020 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780372833
• ISBN 13: 9781780372839
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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