#derekwalcott — Public Fediverse posts
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Todays' poem:
The Fist
- by Derek WalcottThe fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
the pain of love? But this has movedpast love to mania. This has the strong
clench of the madman, this is
gripping the ledge of unreason, before
plunging howling into the abyss.Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.
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Todays' poem:
The Fist
- by Derek WalcottThe fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
the pain of love? But this has movedpast love to mania. This has the strong
clench of the madman, this is
gripping the ledge of unreason, before
plunging howling into the abyss.Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.
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Todays' poem:
The Fist
- by Derek WalcottThe fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
the pain of love? But this has movedpast love to mania. This has the strong
clench of the madman, this is
gripping the ledge of unreason, before
plunging howling into the abyss.Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.
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Full casting announced for epic one-day staging of Omeros at Jermyn Street Theatre
Jermyn Street Theatre has announced full casting for its one-day, 12-hour staging of Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros.…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #DerekWalcott #GreatBritain #JermynStreetTheatre #london #Omeros
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Roderick Aldon Walcott (23 January 1930 – 6 March 2000) was a #StLucian playwright, screenwriter, painter, theatre director, costume and set designer, lyricist and literary editor. As a dramatist he "has been recognised as one of the most committed figures in the effort to develop a distinctive Caribbean theatre in the region". He was the twin brother of Nobel laureate #DerekWalcott.
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Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/love-after-love-derek-walcott/
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Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/love-after-love-derek-walcott/
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Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/love-after-love-derek-walcott/
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Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/love-after-love-derek-walcott/
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Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/love-after-love-derek-walcott/
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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.
#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #derekwalcott #poetry #omeros #homer #stlucia #caribbeanliterature #epicpoetry #colonialism #magicalrealism #visionquest
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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.
#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #derekwalcott #poetry #omeros #homer #stlucia #caribbeanliterature #epicpoetry #colonialism #magicalrealism #visionquest
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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.
#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #derekwalcott #poetry #omeros #homer #stlucia #caribbeanliterature #epicpoetry #colonialism #magicalrealism #visionquest
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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.
#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #derekwalcott #poetry #omeros #homer #stlucia #caribbeanliterature #epicpoetry #colonialism #magicalrealism #visionquest
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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.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #poetry #derekwalcott #epicpoetry #omeros #caribbeanliterature
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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!)
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #derekwalcott #omeros #vietthanhnguyen #therefugees #akwaekeemezi #pet #marlonjames #blackleopardredwolf #simonjimenez #spearcutsthroughwater #matthewsmith #hardears #thomasmann #deathinvenice
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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!)
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #derekwalcott #omeros #vietthanhnguyen #therefugees #akwaekeemezi #pet #marlonjames #blackleopardredwolf #simonjimenez #spearcutsthroughwater #matthewsmith #hardears #thomasmann #deathinvenice
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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!)
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #derekwalcott #omeros #vietthanhnguyen #therefugees #akwaekeemezi #pet #marlonjames #blackleopardredwolf #simonjimenez #spearcutsthroughwater #matthewsmith #hardears #thomasmann #deathinvenice
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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!)
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #derekwalcott #omeros #vietthanhnguyen #therefugees #akwaekeemezi #pet #marlonjames #blackleopardredwolf #simonjimenez #spearcutsthroughwater #matthewsmith #hardears #thomasmann #deathinvenice
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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!)
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #derekwalcott #omeros #vietthanhnguyen #therefugees #akwaekeemezi #pet #marlonjames #blackleopardredwolf #simonjimenez #spearcutsthroughwater #matthewsmith #hardears #thomasmann #deathinvenice
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Miraba un viejo cuaderno y recupero algunos apuntes sobre el taller literario que dictó Alejandro Finzi en la Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Transcribo algunas anotaciones:
Prefiero que escriban en papel y se rompan la muñeca, ahí está el oficio de escritor.
¿Por qué son escritores?
Porque antes que nada, son lectores voraces. Si no tienen la necesidad de tener un libro en la mano, ¿Por qué ser escritor?
El libro para un escritor es el pan.
La materia es la palabra. La fuente está en la lectura.
Y también este poema, de Derek Walcott
Desenlace
Yo vivo solo
al borde del agua sin esposa ni hijos.
He girado en torno a muchas posibilidades
para llegar a lo siguiente:
una pequeña casa a la orilla de un agua gris,
con las ventanas siempre abiertas
hacia el mar añejo. No elegimos estas cosas.
Más somos lo que hemos hecho.
Sufrimos, los años pasan
dejamos caer el peso pero no nuestra necesidad
de cargar con algo. El amor es una piedra
que se asentó en el fondo del mar
bajo el agua gris. Ahora, ya no le pido nada a
la poesía sino buenos sentimientos
ni misericordia, ni fama, ni curación. Mujer silenciosa,
podemos sentarnos a mirar las aguas grises,
y en una vida inmaculada
por la mediocridad y la basura
vivir al modo de las rocas.
Voy a olvidar la sensibilidad,
olvidaré mi talento. Esto será más grande
y más difícil que lo que pasa por ser la vida.https://conletrapropia.com.ar/el-libro-para-un-escritor-es-el-pan/
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Miraba un viejo cuaderno y recupero algunos apuntes sobre el taller literario que dictó Alejandro Finzi en la Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Transcribo algunas anotaciones:
Prefiero que escriban en papel y se rompan la muñeca, ahí está el oficio de escritor.
¿Por qué son escritores?
Porque antes que nada, son lectores voraces. Si no tienen la necesidad de tener un libro en la mano, ¿Por qué ser escritor?
El libro para un escritor es el pan.
La materia es la palabra. La fuente está en la lectura.
Y también este poema, de Derek Walcott
Desenlace
Yo vivo solo
al borde del agua sin esposa ni hijos.
He girado en torno a muchas posibilidades
para llegar a lo siguiente:
una pequeña casa a la orilla de un agua gris,
con las ventanas siempre abiertas
hacia el mar añejo. No elegimos estas cosas.
Más somos lo que hemos hecho.
Sufrimos, los años pasan
dejamos caer el peso pero no nuestra necesidad
de cargar con algo. El amor es una piedra
que se asentó en el fondo del mar
bajo el agua gris. Ahora, ya no le pido nada a
la poesía sino buenos sentimientos
ni misericordia, ni fama, ni curación. Mujer silenciosa,
podemos sentarnos a mirar las aguas grises,
y en una vida inmaculada
por la mediocridad y la basura
vivir al modo de las rocas.
Voy a olvidar la sensibilidad,
olvidaré mi talento. Esto será más grande
y más difícil que lo que pasa por ser la vida.https://conletrapropia.com.ar/el-libro-para-un-escritor-es-el-pan/
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Miraba un viejo cuaderno y recupero algunos apuntes sobre el taller literario que dictó Alejandro Finzi en la Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Transcribo algunas anotaciones:
Prefiero que escriban en papel y se rompan la muñeca, ahí está el oficio de escritor.
¿Por qué son escritores?
Porque antes que nada, son lectores voraces. Si no tienen la necesidad de tener un libro en la mano, ¿Por qué ser escritor?
El libro para un escritor es el pan.
La materia es la palabra. La fuente está en la lectura.
Y también este poema, de Derek Walcott
Desenlace
Yo vivo solo
al borde del agua sin esposa ni hijos.
He girado en torno a muchas posibilidades
para llegar a lo siguiente:
una pequeña casa a la orilla de un agua gris,
con las ventanas siempre abiertas
hacia el mar añejo. No elegimos estas cosas.
Más somos lo que hemos hecho.
Sufrimos, los años pasan
dejamos caer el peso pero no nuestra necesidad
de cargar con algo. El amor es una piedra
que se asentó en el fondo del mar
bajo el agua gris. Ahora, ya no le pido nada a
la poesía sino buenos sentimientos
ni misericordia, ni fama, ni curación. Mujer silenciosa,
podemos sentarnos a mirar las aguas grises,
y en una vida inmaculada
por la mediocridad y la basura
vivir al modo de las rocas.
Voy a olvidar la sensibilidad,
olvidaré mi talento. Esto será más grande
y más difícil que lo que pasa por ser la vida.https://conletrapropia.com.ar/el-libro-para-un-escritor-es-el-pan/
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Today's poem:
The Fist
- by Derek WalcottThe fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
the pain of love? But this has movedpast love to mania. This has the strong
clench of the madman, this is
gripping the ledge of unreason, before
plunging howling into the abyss.Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.
#DerekWalcott #poetry #love #trepidation #control #fear #grip
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Today's poem:
The Fist
- by Derek WalcottThe fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
the pain of love? But this has movedpast love to mania. This has the strong
clench of the madman, this is
gripping the ledge of unreason, before
plunging howling into the abyss.Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.
#DerekWalcott #poetry #love #trepidation #control #fear #grip
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Today's poem:
The Fist
- by Derek WalcottThe fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
the pain of love? But this has movedpast love to mania. This has the strong
clench of the madman, this is
gripping the ledge of unreason, before
plunging howling into the abyss.Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.
#DerekWalcott #poetry #love #trepidation #control #fear #grip
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Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/minoritised-languages-and-travel
This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.
#TravelWriting #ModernLanguages #Romantodons #MinorityLanguages #MinorityCulture #Tourism #History #Travelguide #Diary #Wales #Ireland #Germany #France #Spain #Catalonia #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #Poetry
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Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/minoritised-languages-and-travel
This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.
#TravelWriting #ModernLanguages #Romantodons #MinorityLanguages #MinorityCulture #Tourism #History #Travelguide #Diary #Wales #Ireland #Germany #France #Spain #Catalonia #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #Poetry
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Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/minoritised-languages-and-travel
This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.
#TravelWriting #ModernLanguages #Romantodons #MinorityLanguages #MinorityCulture #Tourism #History #Travelguide #Diary #Wales #Ireland #Germany #France #Spain #Catalonia #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #Poetry
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Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/minoritised-languages-and-travel
This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.
#TravelWriting #ModernLanguages #Romantodons #MinorityLanguages #MinorityCulture #Tourism #History #Travelguide #Diary #Wales #Ireland #Germany #France #Spain #Catalonia #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #Poetry
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The fourth article is
“A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England
by Marija Bergam PellicaniAbstract
This article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. [...] In their engagement with the Welsh and English “Elsewhere” these poems ultimately participate in transvaluation of the relationship between centre and periphery, a dynamics that marked the most significant Anglophone literary currents in the second part of the twentieth century.#TravelWriting #Wales #England #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #ModernLanguages #Poetry #OpenAccess
@histodons @academicchatter
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.198 -
The fourth article is
“A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England
by Marija Bergam PellicaniAbstract
This article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. [...] In their engagement with the Welsh and English “Elsewhere” these poems ultimately participate in transvaluation of the relationship between centre and periphery, a dynamics that marked the most significant Anglophone literary currents in the second part of the twentieth century.#TravelWriting #Wales #England #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #ModernLanguages #Poetry #OpenAccess
@histodons @academicchatter
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.198 -
The fourth article is
“A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England
by Marija Bergam PellicaniAbstract
This article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. [...] In their engagement with the Welsh and English “Elsewhere” these poems ultimately participate in transvaluation of the relationship between centre and periphery, a dynamics that marked the most significant Anglophone literary currents in the second part of the twentieth century.#TravelWriting #Wales #England #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #ModernLanguages #Poetry #OpenAccess
@histodons @academicchatter
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.198 -
The fourth article is
“A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England
by Marija Bergam PellicaniAbstract
This article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. [...] In their engagement with the Welsh and English “Elsewhere” these poems ultimately participate in transvaluation of the relationship between centre and periphery, a dynamics that marked the most significant Anglophone literary currents in the second part of the twentieth century.#TravelWriting #Wales #England #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #ModernLanguages #Poetry #OpenAccess
@histodons @academicchatter
https://modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.198 -
Today's poem:
The Fist
- by Derek WalcottThe fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
the pain of love? But this has movedpast love to mania. This has the strong
clench of the madman, this is
gripping the ledge of unreason, before
plunging howling into the abyss.Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.
#fist #DerekWalcott #pain #love #desperation #grip #emotions #ClosedDown #suppressed #poetry
