POETRY OF DEREK WALCOTT 19482013

Over 65 years, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott has created a body of work unequalled in its breadth, range and linguistic inventiveness. This selection by his friend and fellow poet Glyn Maxwell draws on every stage of Walcott's career, from his earliest work, published when he was just 18, to recent reflections on old age. Its topics include family, love and nature, his homeland of St Lucia, colonialism, identity, and the celebrated yet problematic canon of Western literature.