Walcott, Derek 1977
Vintage poster of Derek Walcott’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago on Friday, October 7, 1977.
The dialect of the scrub in the dry season
withers the flow of English. Things burn for days
without translation, with the heat
of the scorched pastures and their skeletal cows.
– Derek Walcott, “from The Prodigal: 11″
Read this interview with Derek Walcott from the Paris Review:
The Art of Poetry No. 37
Derek Walcott, ca. 2012. Photograph Jorge Mejía Peralta I went to visit Derek Walcott on his home island of St. Lucia in mid-June, 1985. St. Lucia is one of the four Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean, a small mountainous island that faces the Atlantic Ocean on one side and th…
Then all the nations of birds lifted together
the huge net of the shadows of this earth
in multitudinous dialects, twittering tongues,
stitching and crossing it. They lifted up
the shadows of long pines down trackless slopes,
the shadows of glass-faced towers down evening streets,
the shadow of a frail plant on a city sill–
– Derek Walcott, “The Season of Phantasmal Peace”
Watch Derek Walcott discuss his life and work at Hart House Theater:
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott on his life and work
English professor, Christian Campbell, interviews Caribbean poet and playwright, Derek Walcott, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. Walcott discusses issues of identity, culture, and language in this illuminating conversation, filmed at Hart House Theatre on November 23, 2010.
