Hannah is an award-winning poet, memoirist and academic. Her poetry collection Chick won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection, and in 2014 she was named as one of 20 Next Generation poets. Her 2015 family memoir Long Time, No See was featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. The event is hosted by Dr Sophie Oliver
In this event, Hannah will be reading from her latest book The Kids which won the Costa Poetry Award and Costa Book of the Year in 2021. She will also be talking about the importance of Liverpool as a port city, reflecting on her father’s experience of arriving here from Jamaica on the SS Ormonde.
Back to: Liverpool Literary Festival
