Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/love-after-love-derek-walcott/

If Birds Ran the World

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/20/derek-walcott-season-of-phantasmal-peace/

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗢𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗸 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 -

Walcott's epic poetic work is at once a refiguring of Homer and the colonial history of St. Lucia, of the indigenous everywhere, of the myths which mark poet and people. An extraordinary layering of all.

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗢𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗸 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 -

An epic poetic work of seven small volumes combined as quest, immigration challenge, and literary escape, multiple themes interweaving in probably Walcott's greatest work.

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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

A few of the titles I'll be looking at this month! (And some more surprises this month, too!)

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“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”

― Derek Walcott (Sea Grapes)

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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 -

Who are the poets I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://buff.ly/3DBla47

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“The long look back to see where choice is born”
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https://poets.org/poem/lesson-sunday

“The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”

~ Derek Walcott… (from “Sea Grapes”)
#quote #caribbeanauthors #poetry #derekwalcott