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This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, ‘moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition he inherited yet not altogether orphaned from it.’
Derek Walcott was born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930. The author of many plays and books of poetry, including Omeros (1990) and White Egrets (2010), he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1988, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He died in 2017.
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Our Poem of the Week is an extract from White Egrets by Derek Walcott.
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