Talking to Women Abdelhamid Ben Haddouga Hannah Lowe

Hannah Lowe

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his most mature and expansive collection to date

The poems -- as poems of grace

Despite the sense of unreconstructed emotion the dominant tone is cool and mordant

Talking to Women Abdelhamid Ben Haddouga Hannah LoweIn 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. Novelist Edna O'Brien remembers being 'very frightened' of having her nipples touched. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty says she got married to the 'first man I could talk very freely to'. Kathy Collier, who Dunn worked with in a Battersea sweet factory, confesses that she had thought about suicide. After more than forty years out of