Derek Walcott

Photo of Derek Walcott found several places on the web, including the wood s lot archives.

Poems for consideration

"A Far Cry from Africa"

"The Season of Phantasmal Peace"

Walcott on the Web

poem texts (some may require you to scroll down)

• "Achille in Africa" (fr. Omeros, Book III) site 1 
• "After the Storm" site 1 2 3 
• "Blues" site 1 2 3 4 
• "A City's Death by Fire" site 1 2 3 4 
• "Codicil" site 1 2 3 4 5 
• "Coral" site 1 2 
• "Dark August" site 1 2 
• "Egypt, Tobago" site 1 2 3 
• "A Far Cry from Africa" site 1 2 3 4 5 
• "Forest of Europe" site 1 2 3 
• "The Glory Trumpeter" site 1 
• "Goats and Monkeys" site 1 
• "In the Virgins" site 1 2 3 
• "Koening of the River" site 1 2 3 
• "Love After Love" site 1 2 (with music) 3 4 5 
• "Midsummer, Tobago" site 1 2 3 4 5 
• "Night in the Gardens of Port of Spain" site 1 
• "Parang" site 1 2 3 4 
• "Pentecost" site 1 2 3 4 
• "R.T.S.L. 1917-1977" site 1 2 3 
• "Sabbaths, W.I." site 1 2 3 
• "The Saddhu of Couva" site 1 2 3 
• "The Schooner 'Flight'" site 1 2 3 4 
• "The Sea is History" site 1 2 3 
• "The Season of Phantasmal Peace" site 1 2 3 4 5 
• "The Star" site 1 
• "The Star-Apple Kingdom" site 1 2 

Audio
Crusoe's Island
"A Lesson for This Sunday" 
"Homecoming: Anse La Raye" 
"Volcano" site 1 2 
Omeros book 1, ch 1
Nobel Prize lecture 

Robert Lowell's introduction of Walcott in 1963

Prose
Nobel Prize lecture: "The Antilles: Fragments of Epic  Memory" site 1 2 

Interviews
commentary on dual language continued 
commentary on rhyme
"A Multiplicity of Voices": interview with William R Ferris from Humanities 22.6 (Dec. 2001) 

Articles
Brief 1992 article from the Boston Globe by Robert Taylor