Kathy, Carla. The Register -- Try, Try, Try Again -- Queen Bee -- The Art of Teaching I -- The Art of Teaching II -- The Art of Teaching III -- Technology -- Sonnet for Vlad -- The Only English Kid -- Notes on a Scandal -- Boy -- Simile -- The Sixth-form Theatre Trip -- Sonnet for the A Level English Literature and Language Poetry Syllabus -- Red-handed -- Sonnet for the Punched Pocket -- Pepys -- Janine I -- Janine II -- The Unretained -- All Over It -- Sonnet for Rosie -- Something Sweet -- 7/7 -- Ricochet -- British-born -- Mr Presley -- Mrs Vanuka -- Blocks -- She -- Bethena -- Étudier -- Martin and Pam -- The Only Black Girl -- Rain Dance -- The Pitch -- John I: Pink Humming Bird -- John II: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf -- Love -- So Amazing -- The Stroke -- Sonnet for Noah -- Welling -- Dear Professor -- White Roses -- Daughter -- House -- The River -- Players -- The Sky Is Snowing -- Skirting -- Scooting -- Fire Scissors Drowning -- The Size of Him -- Sonnet for Boredom -- Balloons -- In H&M -- Sonnet for Darren -- Zoom -- Aretha in the Bath -- His Books -- Anjali Mudra -- Sonnet for Rory with Soap Bubbles -- Nĭ hăo -- Kathy, Carla.
Summary:
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 fictionalised portraits of 'The Kids', the students 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 interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. Social class, gender and race - and their fundamental intersection with education - are investigated with an ever critical and introspective eye. These boisterous and musical poems explore the universal experience of what it is to be taught, to learn and to teach. The Kids won the 2021 Costa Poetry Award, is a Poetry Book Society Choice and is shortlisted the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.