Writing & Editing Prize-winning Sonnets with Hannah Lowe

This is a unique sonnet workshop with a difference. Prize-winning poet, Hannah Lowe will offer an exploration of how she developed some of her own sonnets, including poems from her collection The Kids (winner of the Costa Book of the Year, shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize, Poetry Book Society Choice). Hannah will generously explore how she conceived and developed her drafts toward finished pieces. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and academic. Her last book, The Kids (2021), won the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021. Her forthcoming book is The Woman in the Chinese Collar (2027). Her first poetry collection, Chick (2013), won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named as one of 20 Next Generation poets. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University.