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ISBN-10: 1780375794
ISBN-13: 9781780375793
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publish Date: 12/07/2021
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.30" H

The Kids

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Price: $16.95

Overview

Winner of the 2021 Costa Book of the Year and the 2021 Costa Poetry Award. Selected as Poetry Book Society Choice for Autumn 2021 and shortlisted for the 2021 T S Eliot Prize.

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.

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Hannah Lowe's The Kids is a book to fall in love with - it's joyous, it's warm and it's completely universal. It's crafted and skilful but also accessible... You will love it!–Reeta Chakrabarti, Chair of Judges "2021 Costa Book of the Year"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1780375794
ISBN-13: 9781780375793
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publish Date: 12/07/2021
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.30" H
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