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1	Omeros more books like this by Derek Walcott There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian and the tragedy of African enslavement - and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile. see all copies from £4.19! new only from £10.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Tiepolo's Hound more books like this by Derek Walcott "Tiepolo's Hound" joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pisarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris; and the poet himself, longing to rediscover a detail from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York. see all copies from £3.07! new only from £8.17! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984 more books like this by Derek Walcott This book includes most of the poems in each of Derek Walcott's seven collections, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of "Another Life" - a narrative poem of over four thousand lines that J.D. McClatchy, writing in "The New Republic," praised as "one of the best long autobiographical poems in English, with the narrative sweep, the ... see all copies from £7.73! new only from £12.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Selected Poems more books like this by Derek Walcott, Edward Baugh (Editor) Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's "Selected Poems" brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated "Omeros" and selections from his latest major works. see all copies from £8.46! new only from £8.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Odyssey: A Stage Version more books like this by Derek Walcott This text is the result of a commission by the RSC. It shares the Homeric/Caribbean background with Walcott's epic poem "Omeros" which won the W.H. Smith Literary Award in 1990. see all copies from £3.64! new only from £9.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Arkansas Testament more books like this by Derek Walcott Walcott's eight collection of poems is divided into two parts -- "There," verse evoking the poet's native Carribbean, and "Elsewhere." see all copies from £1.38! new only from £10.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays more books like this by Derek Walcott On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his ... see all copies from £5.89! new only from £10.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Bounty more books like this by Derek Walcott A collection of verse, including a long sequence in memory of the poet's mother and a series dedicated to the poet Joseph Brodsky. Although many of the poems chronicle Walcott's visits to Europe, his native island of St Lucia is of central importance to the collection. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Homage to Robert Frost more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott Three Nobel Prize-winning poets explore the mythologies that surround the controversial and misunderstood life of Robert Frost. see all copies from £6.72! new only from £9.80! \| first editions
10	Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars more books like this by Sean O'Casey, Derek Walcott (Photographer) Three plays by Eugene O'Neill: "Desire Under the Elms," "Strange Interlude," and "Mourning Becomes Electra." see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.63!
11 view cover	The Prodigal: A Poem more books like this by Derek Walcott In this long epic poem, Nobelist Derek Walcott writes about a wanderer who makes his way across Europe, up and down America's east coast, and always--in his mind and heart and, at last, for real--to his native St. Lucia, where Walcott himself was born. In the course of the poem, Walcott returns constantly to the themes of mortality and memory as ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	What the Twilight Says: Essays more books like this by Derek Walcott A collection of essays and critical writings by the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. Among the subjects in this collection are the examples of his poetic mentors and confreres, Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, and the political issues raised by the writings of his fellow Caribbeans V.S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. see all copies from £5.37! new only from £17.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Prodigal more books like this by Derek Walcott The Novel Prize-winning poet takes readers on a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water" abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. see all copies from £3.94! new only from £3.94! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture more books like this by Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1992. His Nobel lecture is a stirring evocation of the multivalent wholeness of the culture of the Antilles, forged out of a violent history against a land- and seascape of immemorial dimensions. "Caribbean culture is not evolving but already shaped", writes Walcott. "Its ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £40.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Collected Poems of Derek Walcott more books like this by Derer Walcott, Derek Walcott see all copies from £9.35! signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Walker and Ghost Dance more books like this by Derek Walcott Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureateOn a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In "Ghost Dance," first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone ... see all copies from £5.95! new only from £11.16! \| first editions
17 view cover	Midsummer more books like this by Derek Walcott see all copies from £6.23! new only from £72.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	What the Twilight Says more books like this by Derek Walcott Walcott's first collection of prose writings includes critical essays on 10 writers as diverse as Robert Lowell, Hemingway, and V. S. Naipaul, as well as meditations on Caribbean life and culture. It also includes his Nobel address, "The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory" and a short story. see all copies from £6.93! new only from £11.51! \| first editions
19 view cover	Selected Poetry more books like this by Derek Walcott A selection of the poetry of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. The nature of memory and the creative imagination, the history, politics and landscape of the West Indies, Walcott's loves and marriages and his enduring awareness of time and death, are recurring themes. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £7.02!
20 view cover	Latin American Writers at Work more books like this by Paris Review (Creator), George Plimpton (Editor), Derek Walcott (Introduction by) The fourth book in the Modern Library's "Paris Review" Writers at Work series, this is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. see all copies from £5.56! new only from £9.77! \| first editions
21	The Fortunate Traveller more books like this by Derek Walcott see all copies from £18.52! new only from £36.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
22	Another life more books like this by Derek Walcott see all copies from £5.54! signed copies \| first editions
23	Collected poems 1948-1984 more books like this by Derek Walcott see all copies from £8.05! new only from £14.31! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Star Apple Kingdom more books like this by Derek Walcott see all copies from £8.32! signed copies \| first editions
25	Dream on Monkey Mountain more books like this by Derek Walcott see all copies from £6.07! new only from £24.91! \| signed copies \| first editions

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