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. Published by Bloodaxe
in 2013, Chick 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 selected for the Poetry
Book Society's Next Generation Poets 2014 promotion.
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