Looking for Cazabon by Lawrence Scott

Looking for Cazabon

By Lawrence Scott

£11.99

ISBN

978173930367

Published

2024

 

Format

Paperback
also an eBook

ISBN

978173930367

Published

2024

Format

Paperback
also an eBook

Lawrence Scott returns in his reflections to the watercolours and the sites of the 19th-century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazabon, the subject of his novel, Light Falling on Bamboo. Beautifully crafted, these highly regarded poems, mostly sonnets, celebrate the landscape of Trinidad and revisit loves and friendships while evoking both the historical and contemporary violence of its society.

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What they say

“A very rich, evocative collection, full of wonderment, relishing landscape and language, and really well ordered and structured. I particularly love the more personal poems of love and friendship.”

– Mimi Khalvati, co-founder of The Poetry School. Awarded the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 2023, her latest collection is Afterwardness.

Lawrence Scott succeeds in the very difficult task of extending ekphrasis into the realm of artistic fabulation. In doing so he presents these poems which are as mystical, intimate and fragile as any Cazabon painting. A joy to read.

– Roger Robinson, winner of the T.S Eliot Prize, 2019, for A Portable Paradise.

An exquisite gathering of poems fostered alike by extravagant beauty and sudden violence. Poet Lawrence Scott deftly, skilfully brings Trinidad’s great 19th-century painter’s world and works to life in these fine sonnets and one long poem of praise and lament. Beautiful.

– Lorna Goodison was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 2019; her latest collection is From Harvey River.

Looking for Cazabon (Papillote Press), the debut poetry collection by T&T’s award-winning novelist Lawrence Scott, traces the real and imagined journeys of renowned nineteenth-century artist Michel Jean Cazabon. Chiefly comprised of sonnets, the collection reflects on the watercolours for which Cazabon was famous, offering poignant and spirited commentary on Trinidad and Tobago’s past and present day. Scott pays attention to lost friends, landscapes progressively ravaged by time and circumstance, and routes lesser taken to destinations eroded in the memory. These are moving and affecting poems.

– Poignant and spirited commentary on Trinidad & Tobago’s past and present. Trinidad Express. Visit link

About the Author

Lawrence Scott

Lawrence Scott is an award-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad & Tobago. His first novel Witchbroom (1992, and reissued by Papillote Press in 2017) was a BBC Book at Bedtime, while his second novel, Aelred’s Sin, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book for Canada and the Caribbean in 1999. He is the winner of the Tom-Gallon Trust short-story award. ‘Light Falling on Bamboo’ (2012) received an honourable mention from Casa de las Americas prize, Cuba, 2014; longlisted for the International Impac Dublin literary award, 2014; shortlisted for the OCM BOCAS prize fiction category.

About the Author

Lawrence Scott

Lawrence Scott is an award-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad & Tobago. His first novel Witchbroom (1992, and reissued by Papillote Press in 2017) was a BBC Book at Bedtime, while his second novel, Aelred’s Sin, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book for Canada and the Caribbean in 1999. He is the winner of the Tom-Gallon Trust short-story award. ‘Light Falling on Bamboo’ (2012) received an honourable mention from Casa de las Americas prize, Cuba, 2014; longlisted for the International Impac Dublin literary award, 2014; shortlisted for the OCM BOCAS prize fiction category.