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...

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...

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,...

New York City, 28 October 2004 Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. His works include Collected Poems: 1948 - 1984 (1986), Omeros (1990), The Bounty (1997), Tiepolo's Hound (2000) and The Prodigal (2004). The title The Prodigal has complex associations...

It's Oct. 8, just about dawn, the hour of paperboys and doughnut makers. The sun does a coy fan dance behind scattered clouds, as Indian summer tries to shrug off the hint of a frost. Poet Derek Walcott is up early as usual, writing...

Roger Straus, the late founder and longtime leader of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarded his company as a family and liked to boast that "We publish authors, not books."And what authors: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Bernard Malamud, Grace Paley, Derek Walcott, all of whom...

From Edward Albee to John Steinbeck. From Derek Walcott to Oscar Wilde. Then add David Edgar for good measure. Summer may be winding down, but the Stratford Festival of Canada isn't.The repertory theater, with 14 shows now on view, has opened a final, eclectic batch...

In the following essay, Wieland explores recurring allusions to mythological and fictional themes and characters in Walcott's body of work.

In the following essay, Ramazani traces the theme of postcolonial Afro-Caribbean cultural identity in Walcott's Omeros.

In the following essay, Okpewho examines Walcott's themes of journey, voyage, and cultural identity within the context of African Caribbean literary discourse.

Derek Walcott's "Selected Poetry" is a combination of the eloquent, the ironical and the colloquial. His eloquent voice adds a certain flair and originality to his poetry, his ironic voice encourages contemplation over his chosen subject matter, and his colloquial style enables us to understand and connect to his poetry at a more personal level.

Explores the theme of colonialism in poems by Derek Walcott, including the poems A Far Cry from Africa, A Lesson for this Sunday, Ruins of a Great House and the Schooner Flight. Details how Walcott depicts the travesties of colonialism.