{"id":25573,"date":"2012-09-24T02:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T02:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25573"},"modified":"2014-11-12T00:23:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T00:23:10","slug":"poetry-three-treasures-by-hannah-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25573","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewordonline.com\/content\/2012\/06\/poetry-three-treasures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewordonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking<\/a><br \/>\n2012-06-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hannahlowe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Lowe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A panelist at &#8216;2 Nations&#8217;, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how her background has influenced her sense of her own identity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Treasures<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nJamaica in the attic in a dark blue trunk,<br \/>\nsea-salt in the hinges. What must it look like<br \/>\nall that wide blue sea?<\/p>\n<p>England downstairs in a rocking chair.<br \/>\nNanna rocking with her playing cards,<br \/>\ncigs and toffee, tepid tea.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaica frying chicken in the kitchen,<br \/>\npig-snout in the stew-pot,<br \/>\nbreakfast pan of saltfish, akee<\/p>\n<p>China in the won-ton skin,<br \/>\ngold songbird on the brittle porcelain,<br \/>\npink pagoda silk settee&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewordonline.com\/content\/2012\/06\/poetry-three-treasures\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking 2012-06-12 Hannah Lowe A panelist at &#8216;2 Nations&#8217;, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,1617],"tags":[12142,12141],"class_list":["post-25573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-freeword","tag-hannah-lowe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}