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The kids / Hannah Lowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowe, Hannah, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teaching--Poetry.
- Teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (83 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- 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. 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. Across these deeply felt poems, Lowe interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. Social class, gender and race - and their fundamental intersection with education - are investigated with an ever critical and introspective eye. 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, ultimately reaching out and speaking to the child in all of us. The poems in the first section of the book draw on Hannah Lowe's experiences as a teacher in the 2000s, but the scenarios are largely fictitious, as are the names of the students.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Description
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- The White Dog
- I
- The Register
- Try, Try, Try Again
- Queen Bee
- The Art of Teaching I
- The Art of Teaching II
- The Art of Teaching III
- Technology
- Sonnet for Vlad
- The Only English Kid
- Notes on a Scandal
- Boy
- Simile
- The Sixth-form Theatre Trip
- Sonnet for the A Level English Literature and Language Poetry Syllabus
- Red-handed
- Sonnet for the Punched Pocket
- Pepys
- Janine
- Janine II
- The Unretained
- All Over It
- Sonnet for Rosie
- Something Sweet
- 7/7
- Ricochet
- British-born
- II
- Mr Presley
- Mrs Vanuka
- Blocks
- She
- Bethena
- Étudier
- Martin and Pam
- The Only Black Girl
- Rain Dance
- The Pitch
- John I
- John II
- Love
- So Amazing
- The Stroke
- Sonnet for Noah
- Welling
- Dear Professor
- White Roses
- Daughter
- House
- The River
- Players
- III
- The Sky Is Snowing
- Skirting
- Scooting
- Fire Scissors Drowning
- The Size of Him
- Sonnet for Boredom
- Balloons
- In H&
- M
- Sonnet for Darren
- Zoom
- Aretha in the Bath
- His Books
- Anjali Mudra
- Sonnet for Rory with Soap Bubbles
- Nĭ hăo
- Kathy, Carla
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781780375816
- 1780375816
- OCLC:
- 1264474007
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