Derek Walcott
Poet, playwright and theatre director
Caribbean poet, playwright and theatre director. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, collections include The Castaway and White Egrets.
... Night was fanning its coalpot from one catching star ...
From ‘Omeros’ Ch.LXIV in Omeros (London: Faber & Faber, 1990)
And when a wind shook in the limes I heard
What Kipling heard; the death of a great empire, the abuse
Of ignorance by Bible and by sword.
From ‘Ruins of a Great House’ in Selected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 2007)
Derek Walcott
by Horace Ové
giclée colour print, 2003
NPG x126732
© Horace Ové / National Portrait Gallery, London
Al Alvarez
Benjamin Zephaniah
Charles Tomlinson
Derek Mahon
Felix Dennis
Gwyneth Lewis
Jo Shapcott
Kathleen Jamie
Michael Rosen
Paul Benedict Muldoon
Simon Armitage
Tom Pickard
Benjamin Zephaniah
Charles Tomlinson
Derek Mahon
Felix Dennis
Gwyneth Lewis
Jo Shapcott
Kathleen Jamie
Michael Rosen
Paul Benedict Muldoon
Simon Armitage
Tom Pickard
Adam Foulds
Bernard O'Donoghue
Christopher Reid
Derek Walcott
Fleur Adcock
Helen Dunmore
John Agard
Lemn Sissay
Mimi Khalvati
Paul Farley
Sophie Hannah
Bernard O'Donoghue
Christopher Reid
Derek Walcott
Fleur Adcock
Helen Dunmore
John Agard
Lemn Sissay
Mimi Khalvati
Paul Farley
Sophie Hannah
Andrew Motion
Billy Childish
Craig Anthony Raine
Don Paterson
Geoffrey Hill
Herb Wharton
John Hegley
Les Murray
Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
Owen Sheers
Roger McGough
Billy Childish
Craig Anthony Raine
Don Paterson
Geoffrey Hill
Herb Wharton
John Hegley
Les Murray
Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
Owen Sheers
Roger McGough