Looking for Cazabon
A poetry collection that blends Trinidad’s beauty, love, and history with underlying violence.

Looking for Cazabon is the first poetry collection by the Trinidadian novelist Lawrence Scott and was inspired by the paintings of Michel Jean Cazabon, Trinidad’s most famous 19th-century painter, and the subject of Scott’s novel, Light Falling on Bamboo. The poems - written while Scott was working on the novel - celebrate love, friendships and the island’s natural beauty but it is a wonderment undercut by violence, both historical and contemporary.
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Looking for Cazabon
A poetry collection that blends Trinidad’s beauty, love, and history with underlying violence.

Looking for Cazabon is the first poetry collection by the Trinidadian novelist Lawrence Scott and was inspired by the paintings of Michel Jean Cazabon, Trinidad’s most famous 19th-century painter, and the subject of Scott’s novel, Light Falling on Bamboo. The poems - written while Scott was working on the novel - celebrate love, friendships and the island’s natural beauty but it is a wonderment undercut by violence, both historical and contemporary.
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Looking for Cazabon

Looking for Cazabon

by Lawrence Scott
Looking for Cazabon

Looking for Cazabon

by Lawrence Scott

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A poetry collection that blends Trinidad’s beauty, love, and history with underlying violence.

Looking for Cazabon is the first poetry collection by the Trinidadian novelist Lawrence Scott and was inspired by the paintings of Michel Jean Cazabon, Trinidad’s most famous 19th-century painter, and the subject of Scott’s novel, Light Falling on Bamboo. The poems - written while Scott was working on the novel - celebrate love, friendships and the island’s natural beauty but it is a wonderment undercut by violence, both historical and contemporary.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781739130367
Publisher: Papillote Press
Publication date: 07/24/2025
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lawrence Scott is an award-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad & Tobago. Three of his books have been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He lives in London.
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