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EDWARD BAUGH
It isn’t easy to answer these questions, especially as to one book. As to one author, if I’m pushed to it, I guess I’d say Derek Walcott. I find his approach to his subjects most congenial, and his imagination and poetic technique most impressive. I don’t think there’s any other writer of whom so many lines have stuck
It isn’t easy to answer these questions, especially as to one book. As to one author, if I’m pushed to it, I guess I’d say Derek Walcott. I find his approach to his subjects most congenial, and his imagination and poetic technique most impressive. I don’t think there’s any other writer of whom so many lines have stuck themselves in my head.
Re books: no answer comes readily to mind. For all I know, without remembering, it was the very first book I ever held when I was a child, the first book from which I learned to read—the excitement of the idea of a book, of holding in my hand a magical world in which I could get lost.
I show words that I love them by handling them with care and respect and affection and awe.
• Eddie Baugh is a Jamaican poet, professor emeritus of the University of the West Indies, Mona, and the author of Frank Collymore: A Biography. He delivered the feature address at the opening ceremony of the Bim LitFest 2014.
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Linda Deane
Linda M. Deane is a Barbadian writer and cultural critic. She is the co-founder of ArtsEtc and has been writing about Caribbean literature, art, and identity for over two decades. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications across the Caribbean and beyond.
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