Inheritance by Jasmine Cooray
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023 2016 Sankofa takes readers through an

Sankofa takes readers through an interdimensional-intersection

estrangement and fellowship

death and biological verisimilitude

Emily Hasler

bawdy and elegiac rub shoulders alongside the sequence The Plants Are Staying Put – with the poet turning overnight lockdown gardener – as well as calypso poems

Inheritance by Jasmine Cooray<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> 2016 Sankofa takes readers through anLately we seem to find flowers in unexpected places: sunflowers blooming from club speakers, lavender sprouting between piano keys, a black cat collared with daisies and when we, who miss you, embrace, petals explode between our chests. Inheritance is a profoundly moving exploration of what is passed down by our forebearers, what is left behind when we lose someone, and what we learn from being loved. Jasmine Cooray holds our most fiercely guarded