The Kids by Hannah Lowe
PBS Autumn Choice 2021 Penguin These humane and vital poems

These humane and vital poems are confessions

Aptly described as ‘the unlocker of ancient stones and sea voyages’

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The Kids by Hannah Lowe <b><br>PBS Autumn Choice 2021</b> Penguin These humane and vital poemsWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 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 The Kids, her students, the teenagers 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