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DEREK WALCOTT (1930 - )

CONFERENCES

• Interlocking Basins of a Globe, Conference Honouring Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, January 13-15, 2010

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • The Haitian Trilogy.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002.

  • What the Twilight Says: Essays.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

  • Collected Poems, 1948-1984.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986.

  • Three Plays.  New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.

  • Selected Poetry.  Ed. Wayne Brown.  London: Heinemann, 1981.

  • Remembrance and Pantomine: Two Plays.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980.

  • The Joker of Seville and O Babylon!.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978.

  • Dream on Monkey Mountain, and Other Plays.  New York: Farrar, 1970.

  • Selected Poems.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1964.

• Edited Works:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • The Prodigal.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004.

  • Walker and the Ghost Dance.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002.

  • Tiepolo's Hound.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000.

  • The Bounty.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997.

  • The Odyssey: a Stage Version.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993.

  • "The Antilles: Fragments of an Epic Memory."  Nobel Prize Lecture, December 7, 1992. 

    • What the Twilight Says: Essays.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.  65-84.

  • "The Poet in the Theatre."  Poetry Review 80:4 (1990-1991): 4-8.

  • "Caligula's Horse."  Opening Address, Eighth Conference on West Indian Literature, UWI, Mona, May 1988.  After Europe.  Ed. Stephen Slemon and Helen Tiffin.  Mundelstrup: Dangaroo, 1989.  138-142.

  • Omeros.  New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.

  • The Arkansas Testament.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987.

  • "A Colonial’s-Eye View of the Empire."  Tri-quarterly 65 (1986): 73-84.

  • Beef, No Chicken.  1985.

  • Midsummer.  New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984.

  • The Isle is Full of Noises.  1982.

  • The Fortunate Traveller.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981.

  • Marie Leveau.  By Walcott and G. McDermott.  1979.

  • The Star-Apple Kingdom.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

  • Pantomime.  1978.

  • Remembrance.  1977.

  • The Snow-Queen.  1977.

  • O Babylon!.  1976.

  • Sea Grapes.  London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1976.

  • "The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry?"  1974. 

    • Critical Perspectives on Walcott.  Ed. Robert Hamner.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.  51-57.

  • The Joker of Seville.  By Walcott and G. McDermott.  1974.

  • "The Muse of History."  Is Massa Day Dead?.  Ed. Orde Coombs.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1974.  1-27. 

    • What the Twilight Says: Essays.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.  36-64.

    • Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature.  Ed. Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh.  London: Routledge, 1996.  354-359.

    • The Post-colonial Studies Reader.  Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.  London: Routledge, 1995.  370-374.

    • Critics on Caribbean Literature: Readings in Literary Criticism.  Ed. Edward Baugh.  London: Allen and Unwin, 1978.  38-43. 

    • Carifesta Forum: an Anthology of Twenty Caribbean Voices.  Ed. John Hearne.  Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, 1976.  111-128.

    • Is Massa Day Dead?  Black Moods in the Caribbean.  Ed. Orde Coombs.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1974.  1-27.

  • Another Life.  London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1973.

    • Fully annotated version with a critical essay and comprehensive notes.  Ed. Edward Baugh and Colbert Nepaulsingh.  Boulder, CO: Lynn  Rienner, 2004.

  • In a Fine Castle.  1970.

  • "Meanings."  1970. 

    • Critical Perspectives on Walcott.  Ed. Robert Hamner.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.  45-50.

  • "What the Twilight Says."  Dream on Monkey Mountain.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. 

    • What the Twilight Says: Essays.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.  3-35.

  • Franklin.  1969.

  • The Gulf and Other Poems.  London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.

  • Dream on Monkey Mountain.  1967.

  • "Tribal Flutes."  1967. 

    • Critical Perspectives on Walcott.  Ed. Robert Hamner.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.  42-44.

  • Batai.  1965.

  • The Castaway and Other Poems.  London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

  • "The Figure of Crusoe."  1965. 

    • Critical Perspectives on Walcott.  Ed. Robert Hamner.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.  34-40.

  • "Leaving School."  1965. 

    • Critical Perspectives on Walcott.  Ed. Robert Hamner.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.  24-32.

  • "The Necessity of Negritude."  1964. 

    • Critical Perspectives on Walcott.  Ed. Robert Hamner.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.  20-23.

  • "History and Picong . . . in the Middle Passage."  1962. 

    • Critical Perspectives on Walcott.  Ed. Robert Hamner.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.  18-19.

  • In a Green Night: Poems 1948–60.  London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

  • Jourmard.  1959.

  • Malcochan; or, Six in the Rain.  1959.

  • Drums and Colours.  1958.

  • Ione.  1958.

  • "Society and the Artist."  1957. 

    • Critical Perspectives on Walcott.  Ed. Robert Hamner.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.  15-17.

  • Ti-Jean and his Brothers.  1957.

  • The Golden Lions.  1956.

  • The Wine of the County.  1956.

  • The Charlatan.  1954.

  • Crossroads.  1954.

  • The Sea at Dauphin.  1954.

  • Harry Dernier.  Bridgetown: Barbados Advocate, 1952.

  • Poems.  Kingston: City Printery, 1951.

  • The Price of Mercy.  1951.

  • Three Assassins.  1951.

  • Cry for a Leader.  1950.

  • Henri Christophe.  1950.

  • Robin and Andrea.  1950.

  • Epitaph for the Young: Xll Cantos.  Bridgetown: Barbados Advocate, 1949.

  • 25 Poems.  Port-of-Spain: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948.

• Selected Interviews:

  • Conversations with Derek Walcott.  Ed. William Baer.  Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1996.

  • "An Interview with Derek Walcott."  With Charles H. Rowell.  Callalloo 34 (1988): 80-9.

  • "An Interview with Derek Walcott."  With Edward Hirsch.  Contemporary Literature 20:3 (1980): 279-92.

  • "Conversation with Derek Walcott."  With Robert Daniel Hamner.  World Literature Written in English 16:2 (1977): 409-20.

On-Line:

• Archives:

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• Selected Individual Works:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Bloom, Harold, and Susan Ring, eds.  Derek Walcott.  London: Chelsea House Publications, 2003 .

  • Brown, Stewart, ed.  The Art of Derek Walcott.  Bridgend: Seren Books, 1991.

  • Hamner, Robert Daniel, ed.  Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott.  Washington: Three Continents, 1993.

  • Parker, Michael, and Roger Starkey, eds.  Postcolonial Literatures: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.

  • Pollard, Charles W., and Arnold A. James, eds. New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004.

  • Special Issue: Derek Walcott.  Callaloo: a Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 28: 1 (2005): 1-263.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Baugh, Edward.  Derek Walcott.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

  • Baugh, Edward.  Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision: Another Life.  London: Longman, 1978.

  • Bobb, June D.  Beating a Restless Drum: the Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott.  1998.

  • Breslin, Paul.  Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.

  • Burnett, Paula.  Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics.  Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 2001.

  • Davis, Gregson.  The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives.  Durham: Duke UP, 1997.

  • Hamner, Robert Daniel.  Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros.  Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1997.

  • Hamner, Robert Daniel.  Derek Walcott.  Boston: Twayne, 1981.

  • Ismond, Patricia.  Abandoning Dead Metaphors: the Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry. Kingston: UWI Press, 2001.

  • Ismond, Patricia. "Walcott Versus Brathwaite." Caribbean Quarterly 17.3-4 (1971): 54-71.

  • King, Bruce.  Derek Walcott: a Caribbean Life.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.

  • King, Bruce.  Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.

  • McWatt, Mark A.  "Derek Walcott: an Island Poet and his Sea."  Third World Quarterly 10.4 (1988): 1607-1615.

  • Terada, Rei.  Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry.  Boston: Northeastern UP, 1992.

  • Thieme, John.  Derek Walcott.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999.

  • Thomas, Ned.  Derek Walcott: Poet of the Islands.  1980.

On-Line:

• Books and Writers: Derek Walcott

• Campbell, James: Derek Walcott: a Life in Writing Guardian October 4, 2008

• Hartigan, Patti: The Passions of Derek Walcott Boston Globe Online April 25, 1993

• Higgins, Charlotte: T. S. Eliot Prize Goes to Derek Walcott for 'Moving and Technically Flawless Work' Guardian January 24, 2010

• Hunte, Nicola: Notions of Myth, Gestures of Masquerade: Theatre of Memory in Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Toni Morrison’s Beloved Shibboleths: a Journal of Comparative Theory 1.3 (2007): 191-202.

• Kirsch, Adam: The Prodigal Derek Walcott Slate Magazine November 29, 2004

• Naipaul, V. S.: Caribbean Odyssey Guardian August 25, 2007

• University of Oxford: Walcott Bibliography

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Derek Walcott

• Allegations of Sexual Harassment:

  • Walcott Withdraws from Poetry Post at Oxford (May 2009):

    • London Evening Standard: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23689480-details/Nobel+winner+quits+Oxford+poetry+race+over+sex+claims/article.do;
    • Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/12/walcott-oxford-poetry-professor;
    • Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6256746.ece.

WWW GATEWAYS

• Brown, John Gregory: Derek Walcott Page

• Nobel Prize for Literature, 1992

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