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Heirloom

Catherine-Esther Cowie

Cover of Heirloom by Catherine-Esther Cowie
Categories: 21st Century, American, BAME, Caribbean, First Collections, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Available as:
Paperback (64 pages)
(Due Apr 2025)
9781800174795
£11.99 £10.79
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  • This first collection from a Caribbean-born writer examines how violence shapes four generations of women and how each generation resists the dysfunction, tyranny, and terror inherited from the previous one.
    Catherine-Esther Cowie was born in St. Lucia to a Trinidadian father and a St. Lucian mother. She migrated with her family to Canada and then to the USA. Her poems have been published in PN Review, Prairie Schooner, West Branch Journal, The Common, SWWIM, Rhino Poetry ... read more
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