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Hermes – who drift in and out of the poem
Aptly described as ‘the unlocker of ancient stones and sea voyages’
with moments of tenderness and beauty
a recurrent leitmotif – ‘the woods are wondrous … but strange’
” – Andrew Motion
The Kids by Hannah Lowe <b><br>PBS Autumn Choice 2021</b> Penguin Hermes – who drift inWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 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
