Hannah Lowe FRSL (born 1976) is a British writer, known for her collection of poetry Chick (2013), her family memoir Long Time, No See (2015) and her research into the historicising of the HMT Empire Windrush and postwar Caribbean migration to Britain.
Following a suggestion by John Glenday at a course in 2010, Lowe began to write about her father — who had sailed from Jamaica to Britain on the SS Ormonde in 1947[7][8] — and this led to her debut poetry collection Chick, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2013.
Lowe's family memoir Long Time, No See was published by Periscope in July 2015 and was featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.
[3] Lowe's 2018 chapbook The Neighbourhood,[10] published by Out-Spoken in 2018, is a social commentary on communities and gentrification that emerged from her role as poet-in-residence at Keats House,[11] London.
"[16] The Irish Times reviewer said that "the power of Lowe's use of the sonnet feels akin to controlling a classroom – the form acts to hold and strain against the blustering energy of the students and the teacher.