Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist from the West Indies, Derek Alton Walcott (born 1930) used a synthesis of Caribbean dialects and English to explore the richness and conflicts of the complex cultural heritage of his homeland. Derek Alton Walcott wa...

By the time In a Green Night first made its modest international appearance in 1962, Derek Walcott had already gained preeminence as a poet and playwright in the West Indies. Over the following decades he released a remarkable body of poetry and plays th...

For some forty years Derek Walcott has been the preeminent poet and playwright of the West Indies. In spite of his international awards (including an O.B.E. in 1972) and the accolades of such peers as Robert Graves, Selden Rodman, and Seamus Heaney, Walc...