The Neighbourhood E-Book

Hannah Lowe

• Herausgeber: Out-Spoken Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

What is a neighbour? What makes a community? In this themed collection, Hannah Lowe 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.

Leseprobe

The Neighbourhood

Hannah Lowe

Published by Out-Spoken Press,

Future Studio,

237 Hackney Road,

London, E2 8NA

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© Hannah Lowe

The right of Hannah Lowe to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance to section 77 of the Copyright, Design and Patent Act 1988.

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First edition published 2019

ISBN: 978-1-9996792-2-4

Design & Art Direction: Kate Austin

Printed & Bound by: Print Resource

Typeset in: Baskerville

Out-Spoken Press is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the editors of the following publications where some of these poems or versions of them have appeared: Compass, Paris Lit Up, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, Rialto, Soundings, The Caught Habits of Language: An Entertainment for W.S. Graham for Him Having Reached One Hundred.

‘Total Body Conditioning’ was a commission for R.A.P Party at Kings Place, 2018. ‘The Garden is Not for Everyone’ was written for the online project New Boots and Pantisocracies: 100 days of poetry for the austere generation. ‘Deportation Blues’ draws on Luke de Noronha’s writing about violent deportation to Jamaica (https://twitter.com/LukeEdeNoronha)

These poems were written during my residency at Keats House, the theme of which was ‘the neighbourhood’.

Many thanks, as ever, to Mimi Khalvati and RFH group; to the Torriano group; to Richard Scott and Richard Price.

for Rory, and the neighbourhood

Contents

The Blue Door

The Fence

The Golden Thread

Wood Green Stories

Skirting

Total Body Conditioning

The Garden is Not for Everyone

Balconies

Multi-Storey

The River

The Dice

Deportation Blues

Paper Work

The Trucks

Scooting