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Eliot Prize and 2021 Costa Poetry Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A contemporary book that buzzes with life while re-energising the sonnet that Shakespeare would recognise. All readers will find something of themselves here.' - Costa Poetry Award judges Rishi Dastidar, Ian Duhig and Maya Jaggi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204930273458,"sku":"9781780375793","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780375793.jpg?v=1786025032"},{"product_id":"9781845235666","title":"Colonial Countryside: Creative and Historical Responses","description":"\u003cp\u003eColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each creative commission was based. The book ends with a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard, the Turner Prize shortlisted artist who has pioneered critical interventions into the supposed whiteness of the British countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43206276546738,"sku":"9781845235666","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781845235666_c51444a1-b8bb-4ac7-b871-8de596c48207.jpg?v=1786029016"},{"product_id":"9781780372839","title":"Chan","description":"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's Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the Polish emigre card magician Chan Canasta. It is also a name from China, where her grandfather's story begins. Alongside these figures, there's Joe Harriott, the Jamaican alto saxophonist, shaking up 1960s London; a cast of other long-lost family; and a ship full of dreamers sailing from Kingston to Liverpool in 1947 on the SS Ormonde. Hannah Lowe's second collection follows her widely acclaimed debut, Chick, which took readers on a journey round her father, a gambler who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family. Published by Bloodaxe in 2013, Chick was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry, and selected for the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets 2014 promotion.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304401547637,"sku":"9781780372839","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780372839_d48e1074-4ee5-41cd-ba06-9f7446d4b010.jpg?v=1786024976"},{"product_id":"9781852249601","title":"Chick","description":"Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that took its toll on his physical and mental health. 'Chick' was his gambling nickname. A shadowy figure in her childhood, Chick was only half known to her until she entered the night world of the old man as a young woman. The name is the key to poems concerned with Chick's death, the secret history of his life in London, and her perceptions of him as a father. With London as their backdrop, Hannah Lowe's deeply personal narrative poems are often filmic in effect and brimming with sensory detail in their evocations of childhood and coming-of-age, love and loss of love, grief and regret.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308764541301,"sku":"9781852249601","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781852249601_e600161a-51e0-4b43-b1eb-99aae2e9e030.jpg?v=1786028977"},{"product_id":"9781999679224","title":"The Neighbourhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is a neighbour? What makes a community? In this themed collection, \u003cb\u003eHannah Lowe\u003c\/b\u003e focuses on the urban places she knows and loves, and finds a rich complexity of neighbourliness under the extreme pressure. These poems look urgently into the future, into communities bearing the weight of austerity and gentrification, where global struggles manifest in the local. Nowhere is more at stake than the circle of home the author draws around her infant son, who must learn the fragile meanings of the neighbourhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313253724533,"sku":"9781999679224","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781999679224_15f6b8f1-90a4-4652-96b5-cd36414394fa.jpg?v=1786031780"},{"product_id":"the-woman-in-the-chinese-collar","title":"The Woman in the Chinese Collar","description":"‘My family story is a catalogue of losses and surrenders, of people sailing away never to return. This sense of loss permeated my childhood, hung in the air with my father’s cigarette smoke and his silence.’Hannah Lowe’s aunt Nelsa was a mysterious figure in the family, her life surviving in hearsay, rumour and scraps of story. Then, by chance, Lowe discovers a striking monochrome photograph: a beautiful woman in what appears to be a cheongsam. The photograph opens a door onto a life that had almost disappeared.   So begins a search across space and time, taking Lowe from England to Jamaica and back again, in pursuit of a woman who carved out an existence for herself in twentieth-century Kingston. Nelsa was known as a healer, restaurateur and nightclub hostess, a woman whose spirit and strength seemed to touch everybody she knew. But what happened to her, and why?Through photographs, memories and fragments, Lowe explores politics, poverty, disability, sex and crime in this narrative of diaspora and home. Along the way, she draws on the knowledge, imagination and generosity of others, asking what it means to seek help in recovering a life of a marginalised woman. Told with lyricism and tenderness, The Woman in the Chinese Collar is a family memoir and an act of love – an exploration of how writing and research can trace routes and roots when the archive falls silent.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503663161717,"sku":"9781398537910","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398537910.jpg?v=1792425362"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-hannah-lowe.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}