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	Derek Walcott
		Walcott has studied the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture, the long way from slavery to independence, and his own role as a nomad between cultures.
		Derek Walcott was born at Castries, St Lucia, an isolated Caribbean island in the West Indies.
		Walcott himself is a native English speaker and bilingual in also speaking Creole, the language of the rural areas.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /walcott.htm (1170 words)

	derek walcott, derek walcott poems, derek walcott biography, derek walcott midsummer, derek walcott poetry - Welcome to ...
		Derek Alton Walcott was born in Casties, St. Lucia, British West Indies, on January 23, 1930 to Warwick and Alix Walcott who were of mixed African, Dutch, and English descent.
		Walcott was already becoming known as poet, many of his poems being published in the Voice of St. Lucia (1946-1948).
		Walcott was married to dancer Norline Metivier and had three children by previous marriages.
	www.afropoets.net /derekwalcott.html (1173 words)

	Derek Walcott \| Black Writers: Derek Walcott \| WGBH Forum Network \| Free Online Lectures
		Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles.
		Walcott has been an assiduous traveler to other countries but has always, not least in his efforts to create an indigenous drama, felt himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic and European elements.
		Walcott's style is described as melodious and sensitive, issuing principally from a prolific inspiration.
	forum.wgbh.org /wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1147 (222 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Derek Walcott
		Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English.
		Walcott writes in English, the language of Trinidad, but he also makes full use of the local dialects, or what Barbadian writer Edward Kamau Brathwaite calls “nation language,” and portrays Jackson as code-switching throughout the play to reveal his culture’s linguistic dexterity.
		Walcott's plays weave together a variety of forms; including those of the folktale, morality play, allegory, fable, ritual and myth; as well as using emblematic and mythological characters to address issues in non-realistic ways.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Derek_Walcott (976 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Derek Walcott
		Walcott is also known for his work in theatre.
		Walcott won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" award in 1981.
		Derek Walcott visited the NYS Writers Institute on October 8, 1998
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/walcott.html (225 words)

	The Modern Word - Derek Walcott's "The Prodigal: A Poem"
		Yet, as Walcott so often expresses in his verse, the Caribbean and its people are born from exile, and thus familiar with the conflicting feelings of alienation and euphoria engendered by the otherness of their existence.
		While both cursed and blessed by this physical exile, Walcott suggests that the project of the Caribbean must be to step outside of history itself: to see the world with fresh eyes, as would a child born in the same breath as the unnamed landscape.
		Walcott may find cataclysmic metaphor in hotel swimming pools and the aura of attractive young women “who contain their cities,” but in the end, it is to St. Lucia where he will faithfully return.
	www.themodernword.com /reviews/walcott_prodigal.html (1016 words)

	The Rage of Derek Walcott: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walcott's ancestral ties to Africa and Britain force the poet to straddle the cultural divide that results from the union of the captive and the captor.
		Walcott writes an "epic of the dispossessed" which celebrates the Caribbean culture and at the same time resolves the questions that plague the poet in "A Far Cry from Africa" (Hamner 143).
		Walcott looks for a common ground between the African and the British cultures which are not united in his identity.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/caribbean/walcott/bradley1.html (271 words)

	Derek Walcott
		Derek Walcott is an honorary member of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
		Derek Walcott is one of the handful of poets currently at work in English who are capable of making a convincing attempt to write an epic.
		Walcott’s embrace of these figures is a dramatic example of post-colonial aesthetics, an act of possession as sweeping in its way as the imperialism which went before it.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0a4dc1BE88LsX2F7F9A1 (1514 words)

	[...at the LCR] - Derek Walcott - Brief Biography
		Derek Alton Walcott was born in Casties, St. Lucia, British West Indies, on January 23, 1930 to Warwick and Alix Walcott who were of mixed African, Dutch, and English descent.
		Walcott was already becoming known as poet, many of his poems being published in the Voice of St. Lucia (1946-1948).
		Walcott was married to dancer Norline Metivier and had three children by previous marriages.
	www.rism.org /walcott/walcott_bio.htm (1106 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Derek Walcott
		Derek Walcott was born in Saint Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930, and began writing poetry at the age of eighteen.
		Walcott's poetry collections include Tiepolo's Hound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000), The Bounty (1997), Omeros (1990), The Arkansas Testament (1987), Collected Poems: 1948-1984 (1986), Midsummer (1986), The Fortunate Traveller (1981), The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979), Sea Grapes (1976), Another Life (1973), The Gulf (1970), The Castaway (1965), and In a Green Night (1962).
		Derek Walcott teaches creative writing at Boston University every fall and lives the rest of the year in St. Lucia.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/220 (296 words)

	Derek Walcott page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia, West Indies, in 1930, to an English father and African mother.He is the author of more than twenty collections of poems and plays, including Omeros, The Arkansas Testament, and The Bounty.
		Walcott's epic is a significant and timely reminder that the past is not the property of those who first created it; it always matters to all of us, no matter who we are or where we were born."
		"Derek Walcott has moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition he inherited yet not altogether orphaned from it...The Walcott line is still sponsored by Shakespeare and the Bible, happy to surprise by fine excess...
	worldwriters.english.sbc.edu /walcott.html (383 words)

	The Richmond Review, Book Review, Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott reviewed by Amanda Jeremin Harris - 0571209122
		Yet, Walcott's 'post-colonialism'--for such is the shorthand awning under which a variety of issues exist--is more complex than the sum of those parts would seem to suggest.
		Walcott has always depicted himself as someone who participates very fully in the English language tradition, which is in part his cultural heritage, but who is also forever grappling with the non-English aspects of his identity.
		Walcott has used his own painterly impulse to map states of artistic consciousness through light, which he has transposed to an interpretation of Pissaro's painting.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/tiepoloshound.html (696 words)

	Epic of the Dispossessed Derek Walcott's Omeros Robert D. Hamner
		Despite Walcott's insistence that he violates the formulaþhe notes his autobiographical presence in the poem and the absence of classical heroic figures and epic battlesþthe poem incorporates fragments of all the definitive characteristics of the genre.
		Although Walcott could not have fully anticipated Omeros, a retrospective view of his writing reveals the consistent accumulation of the skills and broad scope required for such an undertaking.
		Walcott's vivid, lyrical verse is visually compelling and aurally appealing.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall1997/hamner.htm (392 words)

	Derek Walcott page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia, West Indies, in 1930, to an English father and African mother.He is the author of more than twenty collections of poems and plays, including Omeros, The Arkansas Testament, and The Bounty.
		Walcott's epic is a significant and timely reminder that the past is not the property of those who first created it; it always matters to all of us, no matter who we are or where we were born."
		"Derek Walcott has moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition he inherited yet not altogether orphaned from it...The Walcott line is still sponsored by Shakespeare and the Bible, happy to surprise by fine excess...
	www.sbc.edu /seminars/walcott.html (383 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Bounty: Livres en anglais: Derek Walcott (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the collection's first poem, "The Bounty," Walcott remembers his mother who "lies/near the white beach stones"; the bounty he finds in his homeland, St. Lucia, is more than just the breadfruit brought to the Islands by the H.M.S. Bounty two centuries ago; it is the "thorns of the bougainvillea," and the industry of ants.
		Walcott never succumbs to the poet's fondness for travelog or book report; the unquiet mind that unifies these poems makes them continuous parts of one of the greatest poetic achievements of our century.
		Walcott, who divides his time between Trinidad and Boston, has long given passionate expression to "the heart's salt history"?for him, the uneasy reconciliation of the dazzling Caribbean with the cooler comforts of Western culture.
	www.amazon.fr /Bounty-Derek-Walcott/dp/0374115567 (575 words)

	DEREK WALCOTT
		When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992 the citation said he was honoured "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment."
		Walcott's latest work, the 160-page poem "Tiepolo's Hound", is another boldly ambitious explication of the synthesis between the Caribbean and the western world.
		Walcott's education was, apart from its location, identical to that of middle-lass children in England at the time, and the travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, who visited the school in the early 50s, noted that "it had a completely English atmosphere."
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/bio_DerekWalcott-2-NobelLaureate.htm (2235 words)

	Derek Walcott
		DEREK WALCOTT, the distinguished poet, playwright and essayist, and the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1930 in Castries, the capital of St. Lucia, in the West Indies.
		In 1981, Walcott was a recipient of a five-year fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.
		Walcott’s work is intensely related to the symbolism of myth and its relationship to culture.
	www.junekellygallery.com /walcott/walcott.htm (449 words)

	Derek Walcott:Hamner, Robert:0805743014:eCampus.com
		Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has won international recognition during the past decade, showing himself to be, as Hamner demonstrates in these meticulous readings of all his major works, "provocative, stimulating, one of the most complete poets now writing in the English language".
		Hamner sets the geographical, cultural, and literary contexts for Walcott's achievement, establishing themes that flow throughout this chronological study as Walcott travels between the Caribbean and the U.S., crossing boundaries of race and region.
		Beginning with Walcott's apprenticeship years and continuing through his receipt of the 1992 Nobel Prize, Hamner traces the writer's development with intensive critical explorations of his poems and plays - their creation, content, style, themes, and critical reception.
	www.ecampus.com /book/0805743014 (230 words)

	Derek Walcott
		Walcott recognizes history as a burden weighing on the Caribbean but refuses to be determined by it: "The truly tough aesthetic of the New World neither explains nor forgives history.
		For Walcott, therefore, creativity is not concerned with preserving or rejecting tradition but with using the material of tradition to establish a new relationship between the (West Indian) subject and his or her place.
		Walcott points to the steeldrum, the calypso and the carnival costume as examples of popular forms that began in mimicry or imitation and gave rise to improvisation and invention.
	www.hku.hk /english/engstudies/courses/2093/walcott.htm (2196 words)

	Vanguard - Arts: Derek Walcott’s Afro-Carribean blues
		Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in St.Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the lesser Antilles.
		Derek Walcott, poet, painter and playwright is deeply rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic and European elements.
		Walcott succeeds in addressing the evil of slavery; how it has robbed its victims of their true identity, also bringing into sharp focus the collective amnesia the offsprings of the slaves have been subjected to over the decades.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/arts/at325122005.html (1367 words)

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		Walcott was born in 1930 on the island of St. Lucia, the posthumous child of a civil servant and a schoolteacher, and the descendent of two white grandfathers and two fl grandmothers.
		Walcott explored these themes again in Another Life, a book-length autobiographical poem that examines the important roles of poetry, memory, and historical consciousness in bridging the distances within the postcolonial psyche.
		The success of Omeros validates the substance of Walcott’s entire oeuvre, for here are the themes that have consistently preoccupied the poet: the beauty of his island home, the burden of a colonial legacy, the fragmentation of Caribbean identity, and the role of the poet in addressing these concerns.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Walcott.html (2112 words)

	Amazon.com: Collected Poems, 1948-1984: Books: Derek Walcott (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walcott is a superb stylist who leaves his signature in complex chains of imagery: "The rain falls like knives/ on the kitchen floor./ The sky's heavy drawer was pulled out too suddenly." Collected Poems will certainly rank as one of the important poetry titles of 1986, and no poetry collection will be complete without it.
		Derek Walcott's diction and his superb metaphors are yet to be seen in any other caribbean poet.
		It would be no exaggeration to say that Walcott is the greatest living poet writing in English, on account of the richness and originality of his language, the accuracy of his natural and social observations, and the diversity and ambition of his subject matter.
	www.amazon.com /Collected-Poems-1948-1984-Derek-Walcott/dp/0374520259 (1559 words)

	Derek Walcott information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was in the vanguard of the post-colonial school of English language writing.
		Walcott founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959, which has produced his plays (and others) since that time, and remains active with its Board of Directors.
		Walcott's plays weave together a variety of forms; including those of the folktale, morality play, allegory, fable, ritual and myth; as well as using emblematic and mythological characters to address issues in non-realistic ways.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Derek_Walcott (639 words)

	Derek Walcott collection
		Derek Walcott is a St. Lucian poet and dramatist of international repute.
		The second installment, a substantial collection (manuscripts of plays, poems, correspondence, scrap books, photographs), covers the period when Walcott was based in Trinidad and Tobago and the establishment and activity of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, as well as much of his poetry and prose up to 1981.
		The Derek Walcott Collection was named to UNESCO’s prestigious Memory of the World Register in recognition of its international significance.
	www.mainlib.uwi.tt /divisions/wi/collsp/summaries/derekwalcott.htm (192 words)

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