Omeros er skrevet på et forrygende energisk, smukt og charmerende kreoler-engelsk. Bogens titel henviser til de syv have, der omgiver øen St. Lucia i Caribien. Langdigtets handling foregår i vores... Læs mere
"Tiepolo's Hound" joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pisarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris; and the poet himself, longing to rediscover a detail from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York.
Focuses on such characteristic subjects as: the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the... Læs mere
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. This collection, selected by Walcott's friend the poet Glyn Maxwell, will prove as enduring as the questions, the passions, that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century.
Walcott's magnificent poem charts both the visible history of events and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile. 'Derek Walcott has moved with... Læs mere
This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections.
A poem of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in... Læs mere