Chick by Hannah Lowe Becci Louise of rain and desire

of rain and desire

Her poetry draws on landscape

' - Sir Paul McCartney

and combines a linguistic innovation with a deep emotional rooting

the ‘ladybirds’ or street walkers with whom the architect consorts

Chick by Hannah Lowe Becci Louise of rain and desireWinner 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