{"id":46275,"date":"2016-06-23T18:09:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46275"},"modified":"2016-12-14T22:08:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T22:08:24","slug":"chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46275","title":{"rendered":"Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Bloodaxe Books<\/a>
\n2016-06-23
\n72 pages
\n234 x 156 mm
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781780372839
\nE-book ISBN: 9781780372846<\/p>\n

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

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Chan<\/em> is a mercurial name, representing the travellers and shape-shifters of the poems in this collection. It is one of the many nicknames of Hannah Lowe\u2019s Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the Polish \u00e9migr\u00e9 card magician Chan Canasta<\/a>. It is also a name from China<\/a>, where her grandfather\u2019s story begins. Alongside these figures, there\u2019s Joe Harriott<\/a>, the Jamaican alto saxophonist<\/a>, shaking up 1960s London<\/a>; a cast of other long-lost family; and a ship full of dreamers sailing from Kingston<\/a> to Liverpool<\/a> in 1947 on the SS Ormonde<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hannah Lowe\u2019s second collection follows her widely acclaimed debut, Chick<\/a><\/em>, which took readers on a journey round her father, a gambler who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London\u2019s old East End<\/a> to support his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chan Bloodaxe Books 2016-06-23 72 pages 234 x 156 mm Paperback ISBN: 9781780372839 E-book ISBN: 9781780372846 Hannah Lowe Chan is a mercurial name, representing the travellers and shape-shifters of the poems in this collection. It is one of the many nicknames of Hannah Lowe\u2019s Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the Polish \u00e9migr\u00e9 card magician Chan Canasta. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,8,1617,10],"tags":[1588,12141,850],"class_list":["post-46275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-uk","tag-bloodaxe-books","tag-hannah-lowe","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46275","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=46275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46276,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46275\/revisions\/46276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}