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 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. Across
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. The Kids - a Poetry
Book Society Choice - 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.
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