Born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930, Derek Walcott studied at the University College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. His collection of poems In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 (Jonathan Cape, 1962), celebrating the Caribbean, brought him to public attention. Subsequent works include Omeros (Faber & Faber, 1990), an epic poem in which he invokes...
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