On May 25, Pa­per Based Book­shop will present the third in its 2013 Tea and Read­ings se­ries, held in the shop's lob­by at the Nor­mandie, St Ann's.Three fic­tion writ­ers (Hugh Blanc, Bev­er­ley-Ann Scott and Bar­bara Jenk­ins) and two po­ets (Ray­mond Ram­char­i­tar and James Christo­pher Aboud) will present se­lec­tions from their work.Pub­lished this year by Peepal Tree Press, T&T Guardian colum­nist Ram­char­i­tar's new work, Here, is de­scribed as "a book-length au­to­bi­o­graph­i­cal po­em in five parts" on the Peepal Tree Press Web site. His pre­vi­ous pub­li­ca­tions in­clude Break­ing the News, Me­dia & Cul­ture in Trinidad (2005); Amer­i­can Fall (2007); and The Is­land Quin­tet (2009).

Aboud's La­ga­hoo Po­ems was pub­lished in 2003 by Peepal Tree Press. His first col­lec­tion of po­ems, The Stone Rose, was re­leased in 1986. In the Caribbean Re­view of Books, NicholasLaugh­lin de­scribes the writ­ing in La­ga­hoo Po­ems as "dark, sharp-edged frag­ments of what seems like a lost cre­ation myth," adding that the work as a whole is "thrilling."Bev­er­ley-Ann Scott is the au­thor of The Stolen Cas­cadu­ra, pub­lished in 2007 by Au­thor­House, as well as the 2012 nov­el Is Amer­i­ca She Gone?, al­so re­leased by Au­thor­House. The Stolen Cas­cadu­ra was Nalis' choice for its 2012 One Book One Com­mu­ni­ty pro­gramme.

Hugh Blanc's de­but nov­el, Be­tween Bod­ies Lie, was pub­lished in 2012 by Au­thor­House. In a starred fea­ture from Kirkus Re­views, the nov­el is de­scribed as "a mas­ter­ful­ly writ­ten ex­plo­ration of the beau­ty and cru­el­ty of love, as sharp as it is sen­su­al."At this year's NGC Bo­cas Lit Fest, both Blanc and Scott were fea­tured on a pan­el dis­cus­sion, high­light­ing the best self-pub­lished Trinida­di­an fic­tion of the past year.Bar­bara Jenk­ins' first col­lec­tion of fic­tion, Sic Tran­sit Wag­on, was pub­lished this year by Peepal Tree Press. The work was re­viewed by BC Pires for the Sun­day Arts Sec­tion, where he de­scribed it as be­ing "a pow­er­ful, pos­i­tive and beau­ti­ful­ly writ­ten de­but." Jenk­ins was the re­cip­i­ent of the in­au­gur­al Hol­lick Ar­von Caribbean Writ­ers' Prize, award­ed at the NGC Bo­cas Lit Fest this year.

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