Chan / Hannah Lowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Hannah, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lowe, Hannah, 1976---Family--Poetry.

Lowe, Hannah.

Lowe, Hannah, 1976-.

Families.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

71 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hexham, Northumberland [England] : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

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 émigré 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

What I Play is Out the Window!

If You Believe: Ribs 11

Sax I 12

Sax II 13

Cherokee 14

Pinewood Suite, unrecorded, 1958 15

Quintet at a Party, 1960 16

Song for Shake 17

Partita, 1968 19

What Is and Isn't Jazz? 20

If You Believe: Old Paradise Street 22

Ethology 23

Mingus 24

Alpha Boy 25

All the Bodies in the Foreign Ground, 5000 Miles from Home 26

Coda 27

If You Believe: One Pale Eye 28

Ormonde

Ormonde 31

What I Know 32

Passieras 34

Boxer 35

Dressmaker 36

Schoolboy 37

Gloves 38

Distressed British Seamen 39

Stowaway 40

Johnny Cakes - A Recipe 41

In 42

Ship-breaking 43

Mishra's Blues 44

Borderliner

My Father's Notebook 49

Ran Away, My Mulatto Boy 51

Topsy, Turvy 52

Out of Many 53

Borderliner 54

Scott Joplin Rag 55

Note by Note 56

Mitchell/Mingus 57

Genealogy 58

High Yellow 59

Honey 60

Brown Eyes Blue 61

Yellow River, Milk River 62

Fifty Words of English 63

Eleven O'Clock Child 64

What Charlie Said 65

What Do I Remember of Sofia? 66

If You Believe: In the Smoke and the Light 67

Old Daisy-face 68.

ISBN:

9781780372839

1780372833

OCLC:

920737625

Publisher Number:

99969533416