Hannah’s work, mainly as a poet and memoirist, is concerned with migration histories, multicultural London and the complex legacies of the British Empire. Her forthcoming book is The Woman in the Chinese Collar (Feb 2026, Scribner).
She is the founder of the writers’ mentoring programme, Writing Otherwise, and Poetry Editor for WritersMosaic Magazine.
Reconstructing a life using only a photograph, a brief mention in a newspaper, a death certificate and a man who knew her in passing 50 years ago.
4th June 2026
Hannah Lowe: 'The British Empire picked people up from all over the world... and then put them down in different places, like on a chessboard – and the different interactions and relationships that happened because of that, including my own existence, right?'
In conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi
5th January 2022
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Personal upheavals weaved into a meditation on memory, identity and the spaces that nurture a poet’s work.
20th April 2026
Hannah Lowe reads her poem, 'Reggae Story' inspired by her Jamaican father, Chick. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
17th December 2025
Poet and memorist Hannah Lowe learns more about her aunt Nelsa, the owner of a famous restaurant in Kingston Jamaica in the 1960s.
12th March 2024
A satirical drama series set in US academia where it's 'out with the old, in with the new'
17th November 2021
'Green Beetles' is a poem by Hannah Lowe, author of Costa Book of the Year 2021, The Kids.
22nd October 2021
‘And my voice is so strong’: Hannah Lowe recalls a pioneering Jamaican poet
18th August 2021
Poet Hannah Lowe on the racialised language of slavery and Empire and its aftermath and the racial slurs she experienced as a child.
21st May 2021
"My reasons for writing began with my father, and he remains the elusive character I search for, opening one door after another."
Hannah’s work, mainly as a poet, centres around migration histories, multicultural London and the complex legacies of the British Empire.
Image credit: Photo by Lealle
Hannah Lowe on how her father’s life-story inspired her to become a poet.
5th January 2022
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Hannah Lowe and her young son’s experience of a fallen tree and her poem inspired by the event.
5th January 2022
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The poet and former teacher Hannah Lowe reflects on the process of writing about youths in her Costa Award-winning collection, The Kids. Lowe considers the challenge of inhabiting a young person's voice, conjuring empathy and understanding for the teenagers she taught and excited about poetry.
5th January 2022
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