The Department of Literatures in English will host the second lecture in The Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture Series on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 11:00 am, at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, UWI, Mona.  The guest speaker will be Professor Emeritus Mark McWatt, award-winning author.  He has published two collections of poetry, the second of which, The Language of Eldorado (1994), was awarded the Guyana Prize.  His first work of prose fiction, Suspended Sentences (2005), was the winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2006.

For further information please contact the Department of Literatures in English, UWI Mona at 927-2217 or 935-8396.

The university community and the public are invited.