Hannah Lowe: The Kids - Winner of the 2021 Costa Book of the Year [2021] paperback Condition:New can either survive with their

can either survive with their hearts intact

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a sharp ear for dialogue and dialect

the family fled to Romania and eventually sailed to Brazil

Hannah Lowe: The Kids - Winner of the 2021 Costa Book of the Year [2021] paperback Condition:New can either survive with theirHannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are fictionalised portraits of 'The Kids', the students 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