Jun 2, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
Meet Hannah Lowe, our host for this season of The Glimpse. Hannah introduces herself, sharing how she came to poetry, her current poetry project inspired by her Chinese-Jamaican aunt, and how she…
Hannah LoweHost
So as I was writing about my father, that was the thing that I was writing about.
So I was kind of doing a lot of historical research and then translating it into poetry.
And then I did a PhD in creative writing, which definitely was based on archives, particularly around post-war migration from the Caribbean to Britain.
I ended up writing four books that were in one way or another linked to my father's life.
What you learn at 16 to 19. and then moving to university are very different experiences.
So I began to sketch out some sonnets that were really about the act of teaching, classroom encounters, the students that I taught.
But what I was really interested in was the intersections of social class, gender, ethnicity, multiculturalism in the classroom and the way in which the legacies of empire still played out in my life, but also in the lives of the young people that I taught.
And so it's not really been a surprise to me that that stone still feels like it hasn't been fully turned.
So as I was writing about my father, that was the thing that I was writing about.
So I was kind of doing a lot of historical research and then translating it into poetry.
And then I did a PhD in creative writing, which definitely was based on archives, particularly around post-war migration from the Caribbean to Britain.
I ended up writing four books that were in one way or another linked to my father's life.
What you learn at 16 to 19. and then moving to university are very different experiences.
So I began to sketch out some sonnets that were really about the act of teaching, classroom encounters, the students that I taught.
But what I was really interested in was the intersections of social class, gender, ethnicity, multiculturalism in the classroom and the way in which the legacies of empire still played out in my life, but also in the lives of the young people that I taught.
And so it's not really been a surprise to me that that stone still feels like it hasn't been fully turned.
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