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Chick<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bloodaxe Books<\/a>
\n2013-01-24
\n64 pages
\nPaperback ISBN-10: 1852249609; ISBN-13: 978-1852249601<\/p>\n

Hannah Lowe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hannah Lowe\u2019s 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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n