Edward Alston Cecil Baugh CD (10 January 1936 – 9 December 2023) was a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott,[1] whose Selected Poems (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-length study of the Nobel-winning poet's work, Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision.
[2][3] Edward Alston Cecil Baugh was born on 10 January 1936 in Port Antonio, Jamaica,[4] the son of Edward Percival Baugh, purchasing agent, and Ethel Maud Duhaney-Baugh.
[7] In March 2021, Baugh was announced as the co-recipient, together with Mervyn Morris, of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters.
[8] Baugh died in Kingston early on 10 December 2023, at the age of 87,[9] survived by his wife Sheila and their daughters Sarah and Katherine.
Baugh's poems appeared in various magazines and anthologies years before the publication of his first collection, A Tale from the Rainforest (1988).