Derek Walcott published numerous collections of poetry, as well as plays and essays. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, and was a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner.
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
Form in Poetry: Joseph Brodsky and Derek Walcott in a conversation with Bengt Jangfeldt
Introduction by Bengt Jangfeldt In September 1993, two Nobel laureates in literature, Joseph Brodsky (1987) and Derek Walcott (1992), were invited to the University of Linköping in Sweden for a […]
Poetry
Winter 1981
Map of the New World
I Dragons once, with webbed hands, serrated fins, circled this unknown sea. Their scales flake now like scurf, their skins aged with this wrinkled chart. Where they were feared to […]
Poetry
Winter 1981
Beach Head
for Tony Hecht I come up to a break on the beach, where a channel of the river is pushed back by the ancestral quarrel of fresh water with […]
Poetry
Winter 1981
Snow
Against thin woods, Siberian snow steadily erases objects from their names, like weevils in flour rocks crawl under the elms. There is a place whose year is February. A red […]
Poetry
Winter 1980
Credit Card
From Florida’s penisolate peninsula lolling in the pool of the Caribbean the credit card culture begins, where innocent helots climb, blue-haired, plaid-shorted Hiltons and Holiday Inns. These are the ruined […]
Poetry
Winter 1980
Piano Practice
for Mark Strand April, in another fortnight, metropolitan April. Light rain-gauze across the museum’s entrance, like their eyes when they leave you, equivocating Spring! The sun dries the avenue’s […]
Poetry
Winter 1980
A Separate Peace
for John Hearne Islands hissing in rain, light rain and governments falling, the night pitch-black again and again, the slow moon soaring. Reduce government to this: moonlight and a […]
In Memoriam
Piano Practice
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1980, Volume II, No. 1 for Mark Strand April, in another fortnight, metropolitan April. Light rain-gauze across the museum’s entrance, like their eyes […]
Map of the New World
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1981, Vol. III, No. 1 I. Dragons once, with webbed hands, serrated fins, circled this unknown sea. Their scales flake now like scurf, […]
Winter 2013
Snow
Against thin woods, Siberian snow steadily erases objects from their names, like weevils in flour rocks crawl under the elms. There is a place whose year is February.