Nobel Prize

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…

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…

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Works in English The Grass is Singing. – London : M. Joseph, 1950 ; New York : Crowell, 1950 This was the Old Chief’s Country. – London : M. Joseph, 1951 ; New York : Crowell, 1952 Martha Quest. – London : M. Joseph, 1952. – (Children of Violence; 1) Five : Short Novels. –…