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Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."
Omeros is an epic poem by Saint Lucian writer Derek Walcott, first published in 1990.The work is divided into seven "books" containing a total of sixty-four chapters. Many critics view Omeros as Walcott's finest work.
Stephen Breslow of University of Tampa had since the mid-1980s predicted that Walcott would become a Nobel laureate in literature and explained that the likely reasons why Swedish Academy chose Derek Walcott was because his work had "a strong regional voice that transcends its topical locality, through the depth and breadth of its poetic resonance and through its global human implication."
Basil, a cabinet-maker dressed like Baron Samedi, who represents death at certain points. Pamphilion, a market inspector. A Dancer, also Narrator. Little Bearers. Sisters of the Revelation. Market Women, who are transfigured into Makak's wives during his dream. Warriors, Demons. There is also a singer, a male chorus, and two drummers.
Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama is a play by Derek Walcott.It was commissioned by the University of the West Indies [1] for the opening of the first (and only) opening session of the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation on 23 April 1958, when the play was first performed in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, [2] in an open-air production involving actors and personnel from other parts of ...
Edward Alston Cecil Baugh CD (10 January 1936 – 9 December 2023) was a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott, [1] whose Selected Poems (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-length study of the Nobel-winning poet's work, Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision.
"Love After Love" is a poem by Derek Walcott, included in his Collected Poems, 1948–1984 (1986). [1] NPR's Weekend Edition featured a reading of the poem in March ...
On Wednesday 10th September 2008 at BBC Bush House at 16.00hrs, Derek Walcott will be talking about his epic poem Omeros on the BBC's World Book Club. If you would like to put a question to Derek Walcott about Omeros , email worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk.