{"id":51209,"date":"2017-01-16T20:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51209"},"modified":"2017-01-16T20:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:20:53","slug":"chan-poetry-by-hannah-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51209","title":{"rendered":"Chan, poetry by Hannah Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianreviewofbooks.com\/pages\/?ID=2822\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chan<\/strong><em><strong>, poetry by Hannah Lowe<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianreviewofbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Asian Review of Books<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetry.sg\/browse\/theophilus-kwek\/biography\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Theophilus Kwek<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disembarkation#Civilian\" target=\"_blank\">gangplank<\/a> of a pre-war steamship to the present, via the jazz underground of 1960s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hannahlowe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Lowe\u2019s<\/a> rewarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46275\" target=\"_blank\">second collection<\/a> revels in the company of an unlikely crew of voices and personalities. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46275\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Chan<\/em><\/a> takes its name from the poet\u2019s father (nicknamed, in turn, after the Polish card magician <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chan_Canasta\" target=\"_blank\">Chan Canasta<\/a>) but does not shy away from the older resonances of the word, tracing these back into her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hakka_people\" target=\"_blank\">Hakka<\/a> heritage and the journeys of a global diaspora. Along the way, the poems investigate lives that intersect with Lowe\u2019s personal history, no matter how brief the acquaintance: from the magnetic jazz saxophonist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Harriott\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Harriott<\/a>, her father\u2019s first cousin, to the travellers and stowaways who join Gilbert Lowe on the SS Ormonde in 1947 as it sails from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianreviewofbooks.com\/pages\/?ID=2822\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chan, poetry by Hannah Lowe The Asian Review of Books 2017-01-08 Theophilus Kwek From the gangplank of a pre-war steamship to the present, via the jazz underground of 1960s London, Hannah Lowe\u2019s rewarding second collection revels in the company of an unlikely crew of voices and personalities. Chan takes its name from the poet\u2019s father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,8,10],"tags":[26007,12141,4774,26008],"class_list":["post-51209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-asian-review-of-books","tag-hannah-lowe","tag-the-asian-review-of-books","tag-theophilus-kwek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51209","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=51209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51210,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51209\/revisions\/51210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}