Love After Love Resources

Websites

Walcott’s Life

Enjoy this biography and links to other work.

Walcott’s Life, Take Two

Here’s a second biography, with links to Walcott’s writing.

See St. Lucia

If you want to learn more about Walcott’s homeland, this website was put together by the St. Lucia tourist board. Yeah, we think we could handle a visit there.

Video

Whyte on Walcott

This is a reading of the poem, done by British poet David Whyte.

Words with Walcott

Here’s the man himself, reading and discussing his work.

Walcott’s World View

Here he is in an interview with Bill Moyers, discussing the colonial history of his native St. Lucia.

Audio

The Mindfulness of “Love After Love”

Dig this discussion of the poem as a meditation on, well, meditation—and mindfulness.

Tom Hiddleston’s Take

That’s right. You can hear Loki from The Avengers read Walcott’s poem.

Images

Behold the Man

There are a lot of patterns happening in this pic.

The Beach Bard

The title says it all.

Walcott at Work

We feel better about our messy desk now.

Articles and Interviews

The Paris Review Interview

How do you know you’ve made it as a writer? The Paris Review interviews you.

“Full Fathom Five”

Check out this New Yorker article on the influence of the sea on Walcott’s work.

Books

Collected Poems

Get ‘em all right here.

Omeros

The Iliad, in the Caribbean—this is considered by many to be Walcott’s crowning achievement.

Movies and TV Productions

Poetry is an Island

Dig this doc about Walcott. The scenery alone makes it worth checking out.