Chick by Hannah Lowe Becci Louise and combines a linguistic innovation

and combines a linguistic innovation with a deep emotional rooting

'There is a type of nostos - that classical trope of the return home after great trials exemplified by The Odyssey - which does not involve exile in the literal sense

captured in poems of such exuberance and transformative energy you feel you are also running through the border

R M Francis

Chick by Hannah Lowe Becci Louise and combines a linguistic innovationWinner of the 2015 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry 2014 Hannah Lowes first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that took