Nobel Prize

Credit: ITN Archive/Reuters * The event is described in a book by Abraham Pais, Einstein Lived Here (page 181), published by Clarendon Press in 1994.

Verse 25 Poems. – Port-of-Spain : Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948 Epitaph for the Young. Xll Cantos. – Bridgetown : Barbados Advocate, 1949 Poems. – Kingston, Jamaica : City Printery, 1951 In a Green Night. Poems 1948–60. – London : Cape, 1962 Selected Poems. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1964 The Castaway and Other…

Two poems by Derek Walcott Sea Grapes That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home, could be Odysseus, home-bound on the Aegean; that father and husband’s longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa’s name in every gull’s outcry. This…

Derek Walcott’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Representatives of the Nobel Foundation, Honourable Members of the Academies, the Karolinska Institute and Election Committees, Students, Ladies and Gentlemen, The honour that you pay me is accepted in the one name that comprises all of the supposedly broken…

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Poetry (a selection) Eleven Poems. Belfast : Festival Publications, Queen’s University, 1965 Death of a Naturalist. London : Faber, 1966 A Lough Neagh Sequence. Didsbury, Manchester : Phoenix Pamphlets Poets Press, 1969 Boy Driving His Father to Confession. Farnham, Surrey : Sceptre Press, 1970 (150 numbered copies) Night Drive. Crediton, Devon : Richard Gilbertson, 1970…

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Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott’s life and work. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the…