Derek Walcott was born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930. The author of many plays and books of poetry, most recently
White Egrets (2010), he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1988, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He died in 2017.
Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and friendship. Walcott records...
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