Heirloom by Catherine-Esther Cowie
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION SUMMER 2025 Ted Hughes Award Winner “[…] a word-smithy that is

“[…] a word-smithy that is now owned by an incorruptible woman of letters

In the spirit of Dr King and his work as a humanitarian and activist

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The book is a multi-faceted and vital exploration of the non-human

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Heirloom by Catherine-Esther Cowie<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION SUMMER 2025</b> Ted Hughes Award Winner “[…] a word-smithy that isPublished 24th April 2025. Set in colonial and post colonial St. Lucia, this collection examines how violence shapes four generations of women and how each generation resists the dysfunction, tyranny, and terror inherited from the previous one. As each woman strives to chart her own course, she grapples with how she both subsumes and inhabits the stories of her mother(s). Divided into four sections, each representing a successive generation, the