{"id":51024,"date":"2016-12-30T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51024"},"modified":"2017-11-05T05:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T05:24:23","slug":"chan-by-hannah-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51024","title":{"rendered":"Chan by Hannah Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chan<\/strong> by Hannah Lowe<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The London Magazine<\/a>
\n2016-12-08<\/p>\n

Amanda Merritt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hannah Lowe\u2019s<\/a> latest collection of poetry Chan<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe, 2016) revisits the characters and stories from her first collection, Chick<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe, 2013), which won the Michaels Murphy memorial Award for Best First Collection, and was short-listed for the Forward, Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes. Named one of the 20 Next Generation poets, the bar variably has been set for her second collection. With remarkable ease Chan surpasses all expectations. Dealing directly with the issues of poverty, (im)migration and marginalisation, Lowe braids the experiences of famous jazz musicians, her own family and newly arrived British immigrants of the 1950s throughout this musically accomplished narrative that spans continents and generations.<\/p>\n

The collection is divided into three parts. The first, What I Play is Out the Window<\/em>, pays homage to the lives of\u00a0 jazz musicians Joe Harriott<\/a>, Charles Mingus<\/a>, Shake Keane<\/a> and Phil Seamen<\/a>. Lowe opens the book with the personification of her mother, who had once been Joe Harriott\u2019s girlfriend. By introducing the connection between her family and the world of jazz in this way, Lowe achieves a subtle tone of nostalgia while also painting the backdrop against which the life of Joe Harriott, and his cousin, nick-named \u2018Chan\u2019, plays:<\/p>\n

Those days decades in history<\/em>
\n when men like Joe and my father were shadows<\/em>
\n on English streets…<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet, instead of simply imagining the part of her mother or father in events that predate her, Lowe also introduces her own, lived experience in \u2018Partita, 1968\u2019, not only exploring the relationship between music and memory, but also excavating the layers of family narrative left behind by each generation\u2014material that features predominantly in her work…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hannah Lowe\u2019s latest collection of poetry “Chan” (Bloodaxe, 2016) revisits the characters and stories from her first collection, “Chick” (Bloodaxe, 2013), which won the Michaels Murphy memorial Award for Best First Collection, and was short-listed for the Forward, Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,8,10],"tags":[25909,12141,25908],"class_list":["post-51024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-amanda-merritt","tag-hannah-lowe","tag-the-london-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51024","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=51024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55058,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51024\/revisions\/55058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}