From: Marpam-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:26:16 EDT
Subject:  Jamaican Edward Baugh reads from IT WAS THE SINGING at Harbourfront Int'l Festival of Authors
To: cjoseph-AT-yorku.ca




Distinguished Jamaican poet Edward Baugh will read from his new book: IT WAS
THE SINGING, on October 25 at the International Festival of Authors at
Harbourfront in Toronto. Baugh will read in the Brignantine Room at 8:00 pm
along with Spider Robinson and David Foster.

IT WAS THE SINGING is the second book of poetry by Baugh, who is Professor oEnglish and Public Orator at the Mona Campus (Jamaica) of the University of
the West Indies. Both books are published by Sandberry Press, the 
Toronto-based publisher of the Caribbean Poetry Series, of which IT WAS THE 
SINGING is the eighth title.

Baugh's previous book, A TALE FROM THE RAINFOREST, now out of print, is one
of the best-selling volumes of poetry by a Caribbean writer. Of that work
University of Toronto professor Edward Chamberlin said: "Baugh brings
together a collective memory in the West Indies with a very personal 
expression of the experience of being West Indian." John Wickham, Barbadian 
writer and critic, saw the poems as "springing out of close observation of 
quite ordinary scenes and objects welded by the word appropriate into 
something like a startling revelation."

IT WAS THE SINGING contains the full text of the earlier work, as well as 31 
new poems that, make up the title collection. Baugh, who is also an 
acknowledged authority on Caribbean literature with several publications to 
his name, will be interviewed on Thursday, October 26th (at 5:00 pm in the 
Brigantine Room at Harbourfront) by noted Caribbean-Canadian writer Austin 
Clarke.

An accomplished teacher and performer, Baugh's reading should be one of the
highlights of the International Festival of Authors for 2000.



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