Mother and daughter on a shared journey in poetry
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Lessie Dayananda with Pia Hatch
Unsaid Things, a poetry collection by mother and daughter Pia Hatch and Lessie Dayananda, that brings together two generations of lived experience was launched earlier this month. Though written independently over time, the writers’ voices come together - two journeys finding one shared space on the page.
Published by The Jam Fruit Tree Publications, the book is both deeply personal and deliberately outward-facing, written not only to process individual histories but to reach out to those navigating silence, stigma and emotional isolation.
The collection confronts themes including grief, trauma, mental illness, identity, suicidal ideation and the slow, uneven work of healing. The writing is raw and intimate, and at times confronting; a trigger warning appears at the beginning of the book.
Unsaid Things is available through The Jam Fruit Tree Publications and at Kalaya in Battaramulla.
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