St Lucian poet Derek Walcott is considered to be the greatest living West Indian poet. He talks to Mark Lawson about his Caribbean childhood and his literary career.
Third Ear
2 October 1990 Radio 3
Derek Walcott talks to Christopher Bigsby about
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Derek Walcott
West Indian poet and playwright
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. Read more
the divisions within him, of culture, of language and reality