W.N. Herbert and Hannah Lowe: A poetry readingPosted in Articles, Live Events, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2013-02-10 20:49Z by Steven |
W.N. Herbert and Hannah Lowe: A poetry reading
NCLA: Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2013-01-14
Location: Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Time/Date: 28th February 2013, 19:15
…Chick is Hannah Lowe’s first collection and is also published by Bloodaxe. 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.
‘Here is a poet with a commanding style; her voice is entirely her own, both rich and laconic. These are poems springing from the page with vitality, rue and insight. Her elegies are restrained and devastating. An extraordinary debut’ – Penelope Shuttle…
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