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Poetry with flavour: Nasaria Suckoo Chollette serves up Buttered Bread and Callaloo
Local storyteller and cultural icon Nasaria Suckoo Chollette stirs memory, heritage, and imagination in her new illustrated poetry book.
Buttered Bread and Callaloo is a warm, witty, and deeply Caymanian collection that celebrates identity through rhythm, art, and island roots.
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Cayman Compass
Local storyteller releases new poetry book, ‘Buttered Bread and Callaloo’
Local artist, poet and storyteller Nasaria Suckoo Chollette has released a new illustrated poetry book, ‘Buttered Bread and Callaloo’, a collection of poetry for children and young adults.
Suckoo Chollette said the book, rooted in Caymanian culture and heritage, has been writing itself for over 30 years.
“Every year one or two or three more poems are written, shared with children in the schools, performed at the festival and traced around on a separate sheet of paper,” she told Cayman Compass.
The writing process had many stops and starts. It was after meeting Stephanie Fullerton Cooper, a professor at UCCI, however, that Suckoo Chollette found the motivation and support to edit the poems and get them published.
