Name: Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017
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Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017

In Various Light

Edited By: Helen Goethals, Eric Doumerc

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This book brings together essays, memoirs, and creative work on Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Renowned poets, critics, and artists lay bare their relationship with the larger-than-life figure, casting ‘various light’ on his by-no-means unproblematic legacy.

Coming some five years after the death of poet, playwright, teacher and painter Derek Walcott, this book brings together essays, memoirs, and creative work addressing…

Coming some five years after the death of poet, playwright, teacher and painter Derek Walcott, this book brings together essays, memoirs, and creative work addressing many aspects of his life and work. 20 years after Walcott became the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, this volume gathers renowned and emerging poets, friends, theatre critics and artists to lay bare their own relationship with a larger-than-life figure and cast their ‘various light’ on his by-no-means unproblematic legacy.

Helen Goethals is Professor of Commonwealth Studies at the University of Toulouse, France. A member of the CAS research centre and an associate member of the Critical Geographies research team, she has written extensively on the relationship between poetry and politics. She edited the Caribbean section of the special double issue of Poetry International featuring English language poetry from around the world.

Eric Doumerc is Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies at the University of Toulouse, France. His research interests include Caribbean poetry, music, and the Caribbean oral tradition. His recent publications include Celebrate Wha’: Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands (2011) and Dub Poets in Their Own Words (2017).

Stewart Brown, Stephanos Stephanides, Norval Edwards, Helen Goethals, Eric Doumerc, Florence Labaune-Demeule, Kwame Dawes, Donald Jackie Hinkson, Paul Breslin, Bruce King, Glyn Maxwell, Lorna Goodison, Fred d’Aguiar, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Geoffrey Philip, Ben Gregson