Baugh’s employment of a range of traditional English form is refreshingly muscular, and ironic enough to show that he is at once deeply enamoured of the possibilities of these forms as he is willing to test them by the particular music of Jamaican English and its own formal possibilities. In the end, his quest is for music and balance, qualities that he achieves in each of his poems. But if there is an elegance that is silkily persuasive, you are left with no doubt that there is a tough, insightful and often vulnerable edginess just below the surface of things, as the poems on the shooting of Amadou Diallo and other difficult subjects reveal.