Lawrence Scott & Nicole-Rachelle Moore In Conversation

Join us for an In Conversation with authors Lawrence Scott and Nicole-Rachelle Moore about the debut publication Memories, Musings and Unfinished Conversations (Way Wive Wordz, 2023).

We’re delighted to be hosted by the High Commission for the Republic of  Trinidad and Tobago as we learn about Nicole-Rachelle Moore’s inspirations and motivation for writing this polygenre book, which includes essays, poetry and short stories.

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Nicole-Rachelle Moore’s “Memories, Musings and Unfinished Conversations” draw us into the intimacies of a cancer recovering, surviving mother of sons, helped through the “Haven” of women and the “love warriors,” her sons. Iconic photographs illustrate this life.  She welcomes us into the relationships of ancestors and their spirits, through their stories and the story-teller-poet, she herself has become, caught between Trinidad -her ancestral home –  and London her birth home, her present home. Her consciousness is fed by the moment, the “Now” of Carnival, its history and mythology. As she says in one of her Haikus “Joy” inspired by “Women Who Run with the Wolves.”

Lawrence Scott is a prize-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad & Tobago. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Literary Award for his “significant contribution to the development of Trinidad and Tobago’s Literature” in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago’s Independence, 1962-2012. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. His most recent book is the poetry collection Looking for Cazabon ( Papillote People’s Press, July 2024). The University of the West Indies conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (DLitt ) on the 28th October, 2023.

Nicole-Rachelle Moore is the British Library’s Curator of its Caribbean Collections. She has co-curated courses on Andrea Levy and Toni Morrison, and worked closely with New Beacon Books and the George Padmore Institute. Nicole-Rachelle co-edited 2018’s  Dream To Change the World on the life of John La Rose and contributed to the 2020 publication In Search of Mami Wata: Narratives and Images of African Water Spirits.