The Kids (2021)

by Hannah Lowe

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Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are 'The Kids', her students, the teenagers she nurtured. Lowe interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. The sonnet is re-energised and social class, gender and race are investigated.… (more)

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Costa Book Awards (Winner – Poetry – 2021)

T. S. Eliot Prize (Shortlist – 2021)

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Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are 'The Kids', her students, the teenagers she nurtured. Lowe interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. The sonnet is re-energised and social class, gender and race are investigated.

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