{"product_id":"heirloom-7","title":"Heirloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for 2026 CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2026\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the Forward (Jerwood) Prize for Best First Collection 2025\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the OCM Bocas Lit Prize for Caribbean Literature 2026\u003cbr\u003e\nLonglisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2026\u003cbr\u003e\nA \u003cem\u003eCalifornia Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e Best Poetry Book of 2025\u003cbr\u003e\nA Poetry Book Society Commendation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'How the noise in my head grows and grows,\u003cbr\u003e\nsplinters into phantoms and shapes,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003egraceless muses for her cot-mobile.\u003cbr\u003e\nHow I terror.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from colonial to post-colonial St Lucia, this debut collection brings to light the inheritances of four generations of women, developing monologues, lyrics and narrative poems which enable us to see how past dysfunction, tyranny and terror structure the shapes of women's lives, and what they hand down to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUneasy inheritances are just the starting point for this debut's remarkable meditations: Should the stories of the past be told? Do they bring redemption or ruin? What are the costs of saying what happened? Beguiling and cathartic, Catherine-Esther Cowie's powerful, formally inventive poems reckon with the past even as they elegise and celebrate her subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249797386584,"sku":"9781800174795","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800174795_ecf98928-5549-45e2-af3e-1a60a5b457b8.jpg?v=1779514272","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/heirloom-7","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}