{"id":62774,"date":"2022-01-12T01:34:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62774"},"modified":"2022-01-12T01:35:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:35:22","slug":"hannah-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62774","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Writers Mosaic<\/a>
\nAugust 2020<\/p>\n

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Hannah Lowe<\/a> was born in Essex<\/a> in 1976 to a white English mother and Afro-Chinese Jamaican father. She studied American Literature at the University of Sussex, followed by an MA in Refugee Studies. She undertook her PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University in 2012.<\/p>\n

Broadly, Lowe\u2019s work is concerned with migration histories, multicultural London<\/a> and the complex legacies of the British Empire<\/a>. Her first poetry collection, Chick<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe, 2013), blended these political concerns with a deeply personal and elegiac commemoration of her father, a member of the Windrush generation<\/a>, who earnt a living in London through playing cards and dice. Her second collection, Chan<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe, 2016), expanded these explorations of family in writing about the life and untimely death of her father\u2019s cousin, the jazz saxophonist, Joe Harriott<\/a>. In this book, Lowe developed a new poetic form \u2013 the \u2018borderliner\u2019 \u2013 which uses typography and double narration to explore ideas about multi-heritage experiences. Lowe\u2019s work is often concerned with historical omissions, and in Ormonde<\/em><\/a>, (Hercules Editions, 2014), she excavates the story of the SS Ormonde, on which her father migrated, and which arrived in Britain<\/a> before the better known Empire Windrush<\/a>. Most recently she has published the chapbook, The Neighbourhood<\/em>, (Outspoken Press, 2019), which explores how communities respond to the pressures of austerity, gentrification and deportation. Her third full-length collection, The Kids<\/em>, inspired by her work as an inner-city sixth form teacher, won the 2021 Costa Poetry Award…<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy reasons for writing began with my father, and he remains the elusive character I search for, opening one door after another.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,1245,21,13743,1196,8,10],"tags":[12141,32771],"class_list":["post-62774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-interviews","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-hannah-lowe","tag-writers-mosaic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62774","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=62774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62776,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62774\/revisions\/62776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}