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 shadowy figure in her childhood, Chick was only half known to her
until she entered the night world of the old man as a young woman.
The name is the key to poems concerned with Chick's death, the
secret history of his life in London, and her perceptions of him as
a father. With London as their backdrop, Hannah Lowe's deeply
personal narrative poems are often filmic in effect and brimming
with sensory detail in their evocations of childhood and
coming-of-age, love and loss of love, grief and regret. Winner of
the 2015 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Shortlisted for the Forward
Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First
Collection Prize, and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry
2014
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