Lawrence Scott

Lawrence Scott is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer from Trinidad and Tobago. He published his first collection of poems in 2024. He was awarded a Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 1998 and a Lifetime Literary Award in 2012 by the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago for his significant contribution to the literature of the country. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (UK) in 2019 and made an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by the University of the West Indies in 2023. He can be found at www.lawrencescott.co.uk.

A Father’s Kiss

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From a Family Album—In Memory My old finger tips scoop out nothing now. The ivory soap once stirred to a lather in this wooden bowl melted away long ago. Smooth, I stroke it with my finger,

Infrared

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I kneel to peep through the lowest jalousie at where he lies upon the bed, naked leg, my father’s, under the infrared lamp. I free

Motherland

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At three o’clock in the afternoon of my childhood, the hot pitch road burns my feet; the wind kicking up the dust, the dry season trash in the sugar cane-fields

Remembered Spots

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My father whistled his favourite tune, A bicycle made for two, in the morning, opening up our home.

That Morning

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There was a breathlessness at her departure that morning, a fearfulness at her absence,

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