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 |
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