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.
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.
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.
