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| | Higinio: Caribbean: Mimicry or Mimesis through the poetry of Derek Walcott |
 | | Walcott has gone so far as to echo Marvell's "Bermudas" poetic tetrameter structure. | | | The mimicry or echoes of Walcott poetry can be traced to many other poets. | | | They claim that perhaps he may be ailing from "the linguistic equivalent of colonial nostalgia and cultural assimilation" (Terada 48). |
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http://www.uwichill.edu.bb/bnccde/belize/conference/papers/higinio.html
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| | New York State Writers Institute - Writers Online, Volume 3, No 1 |
| | Early this year saw the premiere of Paul Simon's musical The Capeman (for which Walcott wrote the story and the lyrics) and in November a collection of his essays, What the Twilight Says, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. | | | The poem, which Robert Hamner has called "a New World epic of the dispossessed," is highly original in its marriage of classical themes and present-day Caribbean concerns, the high- and the low-brow, delicious wit and sobriety, imaginative intensity and moving lyricism. | | | Stephen Sondheim has provided those who love musical theatre with their best reason to continue the affair. |
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http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olv3n1.html
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Walcott, Derek |
| | Born of mixed heritage and educated within the British colonial system, Walcott’s writing deals with matters of hybridity and cultural schizophrenia. | | | The sound without an echo provides a metaphor for the silences caused by imperialist intervention. | | | A number of Walcott’s plays have been performed in London and New York. |
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4575
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| | Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Derek Walcott to Read at Smith |
| | Of "The Squanicook Eclogues," Walcott wrote, "Responsibility and delight are the tone of the true poet, a joy in the craft that supercedes its themes, however afflicted, and on every page of this book Melissa Green's reverential elations uplift and soothe the reader as naturally and cleanly as the morning wind." | | | NORTHAMPTON, Mass.--Smith College will host a poetry reading by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and emerging poet Melissa Green at 7:30 p.m. | | | But Walcott is best known for his lush and incantatory verse. |
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http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/02-078.html
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| | The New Yorker: Fact |
| | Derek will do that, and never speak of it. | | | Walcott wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics with Paul Simon.) | | | Walcott began to speak of his marginal existence. |
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| | Internet Book List :: Author Information: Derek Walcott |
| | He also wrote the story and the lyrics for Paul Simon's musical The Capeman which opened on Broadway January 28, 1998. | | | In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 1992, the academy praised him for "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural achievement." | | | Walcott is also known for his work in theatre. |
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| | Derek later wrote Steel, Odyssey: A stage version, and The Capeman: A Musical (with Paul Simon). | | | While at university in Jamaica, he wrote and produced another radio play,Harry Dernier :A Play for Radio Production. | | | Derek Walcott, a Nobel laureate poet, is also a playwright and a painter. |
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http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/BLDRLive/bios/A16612BIO.html
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| | Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents |
| | Essentially he's a lyric poet who uses language with a keen individual sense of its visual potential. | | | Author: By Robert Taylor, Special to the Globe | | | In his autobiographical book-length poem, "Another Life" (1973), Walcott looked back on his childhood and his enchanted discovery of art. |
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http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1992/1992h.html
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| | Poet: Derek Walcott - All poems of Derek Walcott |
| | Web pages / more info about Derek Walcott | | | I don't understand half of it - but that's half the wonder of it! | | | I've only just discovered Derek Walcott and it is such a pleasure to come across a poet of this calibre that I haven't read before. |
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http://www.poemhunter.com/p/t/poet.asp?poet=12403
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| | Walcott, Derek on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Often focusing on West Indian folk traditions, Walcott's plays include Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970), The Joker of Seville (1975), Remembrance: Pantomime (1980), A Branch of the Blue Nile (1986), The Odyssey (1992), and The Capeman (1997), a musical (and Broadway flop) written with Paul Simon. | | | Tiepolo's Hound (2001), in which he interweaves his own story with that of the St. Thomas-born painter Camille Pissarro, and The Prodigal (2004), the poet's memoir of journey and return and a meditation on fame and death, are also book-length narrative poems. | | | Walcott's verse collections include the breakthrough In a Green Night (1962), which first brought him to international attention, and the autobiographical Another Life (1973) as well as Sea Grapes (1976), Midsummer (1984), and The Bounty (1997). |
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| | Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents |
| | The notion of "black" theater, he says, is a "domestic, colonialist trap." And "multicultural" casting just doesn't figure in the Caribbean, which has been a polyglot of cultures for centuries. | | | Walcott's musical "Steel" was, in fact, produced in Cambridge at the American Repertory Theatre's New Stages series in 1991. | | | -- Derek Walcott, about his 1990 epic poem "Omeros" |
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http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1993/1993u.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Omeros |
| | Walcott is nothing if not evocative, calling forth the spirits of breadfruit, waves, Plains Indians, sunken treasure, sea creatures and all his other muses with a music that is beyond sounds. | | | The Odyssey : A Stage Version by Derek Walcott | | | Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros by Robert D. Hamner |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374523509?v=glance
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| | VH1.com : Derek Walcott : Artist Main |
| | Movie premiere - Watch a sneak peek of her movie. | | | Sign up now to receive every bit of juicy, up-to-the-minute news, album release info and much more delivered straight to your inbox! | | | Add a link to your "Derek Walcott" fan site on VH1.com! |
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http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/walcott_derek/artist.jhtml
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| | African American Review: Conversations with Derek Walcott. - Review - book reviews |
| | Such a statement reflects Walcott's controversial view of the legacy of colonialism and the reality of multiculturalism. | | | Fellow poet Hirsch's two interviews with Walcott--for Contemporary Literature in 1979 and Paris Review in 1985--are both excellent sources, ranging in scope from Calypso music to the autobiographical detail in Walcott's novelistic book-length poem Another Life (1973). | | | The accuracy of the melody is the thing." Such revelations make clear how Walcott has managed to maintain his own sense of authenticity as an artist and cosmopolitan intellectual. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_4_33/ai_59024907
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| | City Pages - Derek Walcott |
| | DEREK WALCOTT'S BEEN at poetry for some three decades now, making him one of a diminishing generation still reeling from the recent deaths of Joseph Brodsky, James Merrill, and, further afield, Allen Ginsberg. | | | This title poem sets the formal stage for what follows: 30-some poems that circle the globe from Boston (where Walcott now teaches) to Ireland to Granada. | | | Always a man of letters, sponsored as much by Shakespeare and the Bible as by the lush landscapes of the Caribbean, Walcott hasn't been distracted by the poetic whims and fads of the past quarter century. |
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http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/875/article1603.asp
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| | Adorno.html |
| | After a comical turn in Jourmard, Walcott wrote two musicals in collaboration with Galt MacDermont: The Joker of Seville (1974), a patois adaptation of Molinaís El bulador de Sevella, and O Babylon! | | | Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros, by Robert D. Hamner | | | Though his poetry displays a passion to record Caribbean life, this tendency is more apparent in Walcottís drama, which draws consistently not only on his native patois, but also on regional folk traditions. |
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http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Walcott.html
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| | 10 O'Clock News [Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott] |
| | Heaney asks if taping session is over and prepares to take off his microphone. | | | The Ten O'Clock News Project is a production of the WGBH Archives. | | | Walcott says that he realized that the figures in the poem corresponded to Penn Warren and Rosanna Warren; that the poem is a tribute to them both. |
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| | Trouble in Paradise - Splendor and sadness in Derek Walcott's The Bounty. By Christopher Benfey |
| | a risk of sentimentality in Walcott's praise of the Caribbean. | | | Walcott trained to be a painter--like his schoolteacher father, who died when Walcott was a baby--and The Bounty is his most painterly book, in method and theme. | | | Wistful, wry, at times valedictory (the Monet poem playfully offers the poet's own epitaph), The Bounty is one of Walcott's most inviting volumes, incorporating some of his best work since The Star-Apple Kingdom of 1979. |
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2995
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| | Salon.com Books Literary daybook, Jan. 23 |
| | The Nobel committee cited the "multicultural commitment" in Walcott's work, and so many followed suit (often adding "post-colonial") that interviewers now get a forewarning: "If anybody uses the word 'multiculturalism' I'm walking out of the room." There is a similar island breeze in Walcott's other interviews: Describe a typical day? | | | Walcott says he has "a mulatto of styles"; among them is his 1992 epic poem "Omeros," in which he rewrites "The Odyssey" Caribbean-style. | | | Walcott's two-dozen collections of poems and plays -- the most recent, "Tiepolo's Hound," widens the range by including his paintings -- earned the 1992 Nobel. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/today/2003/01/23/jan23
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| | BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Derek Walcott |
| | BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Derek Walcott | | | St Lucian poet Derek Walcott is considered to be the greatest living West Indian poet. | | | Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Derek Walcott applies an inventive use of language in his plays and poems about the West Indian cultural experience. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/walcottd1.shtml
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| | Derek Walcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The 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. | | | Derek Walcott's more than 20 published plays speak to the popularity of his dramatic works. | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott
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| | Derek Walcott biography |
| | Walcott made his debut as a poet at 18 with TWENTY FIVE POEMS. | | | Walcott has published more than 15 books of poetry and 30 plays. | | | Derek Alton Walcott, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Castries, Saint Lucia. |
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http://nd.essortment.com/derekwalcottbi_rsto.htm
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| | 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. |
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| | Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros, by Robert D. Hamner |
| | Walcott's vivid, lyrical verse is visually compelling and aurally appealing. | | | Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros, by Robert D. Hamner | | | In Epic of the Dispossessed, Robert D. Hamner offers an insightful, well-researched analysis of Omeros, the masterful epic poem by 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. |
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http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/fall1997/hamner.htm
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| | Derek Walcott and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop |
| | If Derek Walcott's plays are among the best of our time, it is because he is a man of the theatre who has spent a large part of his creative life as a director, producer, stage designer, playwright, and poet. | | | This is the company for which Walcott's plays were written and that knows how they are to be performed. | | | Walcott's directing of his plays is highly pictorial, with tableau following tableau and with visual allusions to well-known paintings. |
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| | Derek Walcott: A Poet's Ode to St. Lucia |
| | Achille and Hector, two of the protagonists in "Omeros" -- the epic poem that critics rank among his most powerful works -- are fishermen there. | | | And the picture hanging in his living room, which turned out to have been painted by Walcott himself, is of the Gros Islet beach. | | | Once an elegant cluster of colonial homes, it was rebuilt in the 20th century, after a couple of major fires, as a settlement of mostly concrete buildings with little charm. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2003/10/19/AR2005041501625_2.html
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| | The Odyssey - Derek Walcott, the greatest living English-language poet. By Adam Kirsch |
| | The poem is the record of a journey—or, since it has no real beginning or end, of a wandering, a self-imposed exile. | | | Increasingly in his recent work, Walcott has had less and less use for subjects and occasions; all of his poems have come to seem like parts of one long poem, which is his life itself. | | | The Collected Poems of Walcott found in most bookstores includes his work up to 1984, when he was 54; but in the 20 years since, he has written better and more beautifully than ever before. |
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| | DEREK WALCOTT |
| | Walcott continued to write and direct plays and took some of his productions on tours in the Caribbean, USA and Canada. | | | Derek Walcott continues to be an inspiration to young, aspiring, Caribbean playwrights and poets. | | | He attended the University of the West Indies, Jamaica (1950-54) where he also wrote and staged a number of plays. |
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| | DEREK WALCOTT |
| | Black and white have of course played a big part in Walcott's life, but t is the colours in between that have defined the man and his work. | | | As a young man Walcott considered being a professional painter, and the poem is illustrated with his work. | | | Even before its spectacular collapse Walcott had begun to dissociate himself from the show, complaining that his work was being butchered by the succession of directors brought in to salvage it. |
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| | Derek Walcott page |
| | 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." | | | This site contains a number of links to Walcott sites | | | "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... |
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| | Carib Queen's Passions: Derek Walcott: a St. Lucian poet |
| | "By his fifty-fifth year Derek Walcott has made his culture, history, and sociology into a myth for our age and into an epic song that has already taken its place in the history of Western literature." | | | "Derek Walcott's virtues as a poet are extraordinary...He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond it own; through his fearless language it becomes not only its acquired life, but the real one, the one that lasts." | | | This Narrative Poem is divided into four parts, each having a number of chapters. |
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| | Derek Walcott Biography |
| | Derek Walcott's most recent work, Odyssey: A Stage Version, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1993, along with his Nobel Lecture, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory. | | | Derek Walcott lives in Trinidad and, during the academic year, Boston, where he teaches at Boston University. |
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| | African American Review: Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. - book review |
| | The book has a twenty-four-page inset of pictures of Walcott, his family, friends, and associates, his sketches, and his productions. | | | King's detailing of Walcott's achievements acknowledges his failures as well. | | | While this story of Walcott's life from 1930 to 2000 offers little basic information that is really new, it does provide a number of specific details. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_2_36/ai_89872255
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| | Walcott, Derek |
| | [Derek Walcott took part in the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam 1989 and was to take part again in 1999, but had to cancel. | | | For all its baroque beauty and its wealth of imagery, Walcott's later poetry remains essentially elegiac in tone. | | | A sense of guilt pervades these poems, towards his mother, for not loving her enough in her lifetime, and towards his poor little island, for leaving it so often for so long, returning to it almost as a stranger. |
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| | Derek Walcott |
| | the varied, complex, busy aspects of Walcott's professional life as poet, playwright... | | | Creolizing Homer for the stage: Walcott's The Odyssey.(Derek Walcott)(The Odyssey: A Stage Version)(Critical Essay) | | | In Another Life Derek Walcott wrote, I had entered the house of... |
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| | Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott pulls out of Calabash - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM |
| | We hoped that Mr Walcott would have enjoyed the chance to reconnect with people who admire his work here in Jamaica and so we are understandably disturbed when such a marquee figure cancels on us. | | | A press release from Calabash's organisers, in which festival director Colin Channer has expressed his "pity" for Walcott, also stated that the literary icon was not asked to change his mind. | | | According to sources close to the event's organising committee, Walcott's withdrawal was a somewhat ill-tempered affair, sparked by concerns by the poet over appearance fees and a feeling of his being slighted in promotional activities/material on the festival. |
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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20030516T000000-0500_43829_OBS_NOBEL_LAUREATE_DEREK_WALCOTT_PULLS_OUT_OF_CALABASH.asp
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| | Derek Walcott |
| | An introduction to Walcott, Derek from the Literary Encyclopedia by Sarah Fulford, University of Durham, 08 January 2001 On Omeros (1990) | | | http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=224 An introduction to the poet Derek Walcott from the Academy of American Poets. | | | http://www.system.missouri.edu/upress/fall1997/hamner.htm A review of Derek Walcott's Omeros, "Epic of the Dispossessed," by Professor Robert D. Hamner, from the Univ. of Missouri Press, 1997. |
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| | WFU hosts Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott for workshop, booksigning and talk |
| | Walcott will sign copies of his books at the College Book Store from 3-4 p.m. | | | Walcott's poetry reflects the diverse heritage of the Caribbean which has been a melting pot of races, cultures, languages and histories since the 1500s. | | | Walcott will review work submitted in advance by participants. |
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| | Derek Walcott |
| | His plays include Ti-Jean and His Brothers (1958); Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970); Pantomime (1978); and The Odyssey, adapted from the poem by Greek poet Homer, which was first performed as a work-in-progress in 1992. | | | Walcott is perhaps the most important West Indian poet and dramatist writing in English today. | | | Rebekah Presson noted, “Walcott’s plays and poems are distinguished by the tensions between the European and African/Caribbean cultures, and by the resolution of those tensions. |
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| | Trinidad News, Trinidad Newspaper, Trinidad Sports, Trinidad politics, Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago News, Trinidad ... |
| | Speaking about his upcoming production of the play Steel which, he said had been radically rewritten since first issue back in the 1980s, he said: "Steel has been known to be a flop but it was never performed in Trinidad using the accent in which it was written, because it was commissioned in another place. | | | Walcott, often controversial as a consequence of his trademark candour, targeted Caribbean governments, putting them in the crosshairs for dismissive attitudes toward indigenous talent. | | | Announcing the Walcott tribute at thew wewkend, TTW artistic director Albert La Veau credited Walcott's inspiration in recounting the history of the Workshop which, in 1966, introduced the first theatre season to Trinidad with three plays: Jean Genet's The Blacks, Eric Roach's Belle Fanto and Wole Soyinka's The Road. |
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| | Nobel Winner Derek Walcott to Speak |
| | His literary breakthrough came with a collection of poems published in 1962 titled "In A Green Night." Like much of his work, it explored the Caribbean cultural experience. | | | Walcott received the so-called MacArthur Foundation "genius" award in 1981. | | | EVANSTON, Ill. --- Derek Walcott, the Saint Lucia-born poet and playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, will present "A Reading with Commentary" at 4 p.m. |
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http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-relations/media_relations/releases/03_2002/walcott.html
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| | Walcott will receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree at the 11 a.m. | | | In 1981, Walcott received a five-year fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, popularly known as a "genius" award. | | | Convocation, marking the start of the 1997-98 academic year. |
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| | Poet and Playwright Derek Walcott to Read from his Works |
| | Many of Walcott's works explore the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture and his own role as one who navigates among cultures. | | | He made his poetic debut in 1948 with 25 Poems, and is the author of many other works, including "Dream on Monkey Mountain," Omeros, and Collected Poems: 1949-1984. | | | Poet and Playwright Derek Walcott to Read from his Works |
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Derek Walcott |
| | His best-known play is Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970), and his books of poetry, recognized for the inventiveness and musicality of their language, include The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979) and Omeros (1990). | | | Most of his writings focus on the experiences of Caribbean people and vividly portray Caribbean culture. | | | West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Derek Walcott |
| | Once these foundations are sketched, he then breaks Walcott's works into five phases in the following chapters. | | | Hamner avoids this pitfall by stressing the Walcott's vision of man as an exile, a castaway. | | | In addition to the years when Walcott's works were published and performed, when were his marriages and divorces, the birth of his children ? |
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| | Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott Will Be UI Ida Beam Lecturer |
| | Walcott has called himself “a mulatto of style,” and his work explores the tensions and syntheses of his mixed heritage -- Europe and African/Caribbean. | | | The founder of the Trinidad Theatrical Workshop, Walcott’s dramatic works include “Dream on Monkey Mountain,” “Ti-Jean and His Brothers,” “The Last Carnival&; and a stage adaptation of “The Odyssey.” He has also collaborated on musicals with Galt McDermott, the creator of “Hair,” and contributed to Paul Simon& Capeman.” | | | In announcing the 1992 Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy proclaimed of Walcott, “In him West Indian culture has found its great poet.” Born on St. Lucia in the Windward Islands, Walcott now shares time between Trinidad and the United States. |
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| | Derek Walcott Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| | David Farrier's "Charting the 'Amnesiac Atlantic' : Chiastic Cartography and Caribbean Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros" (opens in pdf) (submitted by Anonymous) | | | Derek Walcott's The Star-Apple Kingdom, extracts (submitted by Marie-Paule Cobert) | | | Derek Walcott reading, seminar and watercolor show (submitted by Judy Axenson) |
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| | Derek Walcott Biography |
| | The autobiographical aspect of Omeros becomes unavoidable, given the frequency with which he explicitly interjects his own persona. | | | Derek and his twin brother Roderick were born to Warwick (a civil servant) and Alix Walcott (headmistress of a Methodist... | | | From his earliest verse written at the age of eighteen, Walcott has drawn material from his own experience. |
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| | Conrad's Darkness focus of symposium - The Greyhound - News |
| | Ending the series on April 19, Walcott, a poet and playwright, will be featured at 7 p.m. | | | Culminating with a lecture by 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Loyola's 2004 Humanities Symposium draws from a variety of intellectual areas to explore the theme, "the Horror." | | | All of the events for the symposium are free, and anyone who participates or asks a question at an event will receive a free t-shirt. |
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http://www.loyolagreyhound.com/news/2004/02/17/News/Conrads.Darkness.Focus.Of.Symposium-608703.shtml
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| | Under an open shed on the edge of the field, there were two huge armatures of bamboo that looked like immense cages. | | | Any title (in any language) by Derek Walcott |
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http://www.literature-awards.com/nobelprize_winners/derek_walcott.htm
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