"A joy to read," says TS Eliot prize winner Roger Robinson. This first poetry collection by the award-winning Trinidadian novelist Lawrence Scott reflects on the paintings and places of of the 19th-century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazabon, the subject of Scott's novel, Light Falling on Bamboo. Beautifully crafted, these highly regarded poems, most in sonnet form, celebrate the landscape of Trinidad and remembrance of loves and old friendships while evoking both the historical and contemporary violence of its society.

Lawrence Scott is an award-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad & Tobago. His most recent novel Dangerous Freedom was published in 2022 (Papillote Press). 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. His short story collection,Leaving by Plane Swimming back Underwater was published (Papillote Press) in 2016. His non-fiction work includes Golconda: Our Voices Our Lives, the result of an oral history project featuring the lives of a community on a sugar estate in Trinidad. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019 and was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by the University of the West Indies in 2023. He lives and works in London and Port of Spain, Trinidad.