Hannah Lowe

Hannah Lowe is a writer living in London. Her first poetry collection Chick was published by Bloodaxe in January 2013. It won the 2015 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward, Aldeburgh Best First Collection Prizes and Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. She had already published a chapbook, The Hitcher, in 2012, which was followed by a short chapbook R x, published by sine wave peak, in October 2013. Another chapbook Ormonde was published in November 2014 by Hercules Editions. In September 2014, Lowe was named as one the Poetry Books Society’s Next Generation poets. Her family memoir Long Time, No See was published by Periscope in July 2015 and featured as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in the same year.  Her second poetry collection, Chan, also from Bloodaxe, was published in 2016. This was followed by a pamphlet The Neighbourhood published by Out-Spoken Press in 2019.  The Kids, Lowe's third full poetry collection, was published by Bloodaxe in 2021. It won the Costa Poetry Award 2021, was the Poetry Book Society Choice for Autumn 2021, and is shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize.