Kids Lowe Hannah
Kids Lowe Hannah Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s, later bearing…
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Kids Lowe Hannah
Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s, later bearing witness to her small son learning to negotiate contemporary London. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are 'The Kids', her students, the teenagers she nurtured.
Social class, gender and race - and their fundamental intersection with education - are investigated with an ever critical and introspective eye. Across these deeply felt poems, Lowe interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. The sonnet is re-energised, becoming a classroom, a memory box and even a mind itself as 'The Kids' learn and negotiate their own unknown futures.
These boisterous and musical poems explore and explode the universal experience of what it is to be taught, and to teach,