Derek Walcott

Bibliography

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 Poems. – London : Cape, 1965
The Gulf and Other Poems. – London : Cape, 1969
Another Life. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux ; London : Cape, 1973
Sea Grapes. – London : Cape ; New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1976
The Star-Apple Kingdom. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979
Selected Poetry. Ed. by Wayne Brown. – London : Heinemann, 1981
The Fortunate Traveller. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981
The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott, and the Art of Romare Bearden. – New York : Limited Editions Club, 1983
Midsummer. – New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984
Collected Poems 1948-1984. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986
The Arkansas Testament. – New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987
Omeros. – New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990
The Bounty. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997
Tiepolo’s Hound. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000
The Prodigal. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004
Selected Poems / edited by Edward Baugh. – New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
White Egrets : Poems. – New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
 
Drama
Harry Dernier. – Bridgetown : Barbados Advocate, 1952
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1970
The Joker of Seville & O Babylon!. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978
Remembrance & Pantomine : Two Plays. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980
Three Plays. – New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986
The Odyssey : a Stage Version. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993
The Haitian Trilogy. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002. Content : Henri Christophe ; The Haitian earth ; Drums and colours
Walker and The Ghost Dance. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002
Marie LaVeau ; and, Steel : plays. – New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
 
Essays
The Antilles : Fragments of Epic Memory : the Nobel lecture. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993
What the Twilight Says : Essays. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998
 
Critical studies
Hamner, Robert Daniel, Derek Walcott. – Boston : Twayne, 1981
Goldstraw, Irma E., Derek Walcott : an Annotated Bibliography of his Works. – New York : Garland, 1982
The Art of Derek Walcott. Edited by Stewart Brown. – Bridgend : Seren Books, cop. 1991
Terada, Rei, Derek Walcott’s Poetry : American Mimicry. – Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1992
Hamner, Robert Daniel, Derek Walcott. – New York : Twayne, 1993
King, Bruce, Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1995
Walcott, Derek, & Baer, William, Conversations with Derek Walcott. – University Press of Mississippi : Jackson, 1996
Hamner, Robert Daniel, Epic of the Dispossessed : Derek Walcott’s Omeros. – Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1997
Thieme, John, Derek Walcott. – Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1999
King, Bruce, Derek Walcott : a Caribbean Life. – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000
Burnett, Paula, Derek Walcott : Politics and Poetics. – Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2001
Breslin, Paul, Nobody’s Nation : Reading Derek Walcott. – Chicago : University of Chicago Press, cop. 2001
Ismond, Patricia, Abandoning Dead Metaphors : the Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry. – Kingston : Univ. of the West Indies Press, 2001

The Swedish Academy, 2011

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