Omeros Resources

The Nobel Prize website offers a variety of resources to help you explore the lives and works of those who have won this prestigious award. This page offers up a detailed version of Walcott's biography.

The University of Cambridge and the University of the West Indies have created the Caribbean Poetry project, an effort that brings together poets, teachers, scholars, and those in publication to develop a higher appreciation and awareness of Caribbean poetry. Cool beans.

This website is our go-to place for all things metrical. Check out the pages on Walcott, which offer biographical information and a selection of his poetry.

Celebrated art director Isaac Julien riffs on Walcott's poem to create a 20-minute film starring Achille.

Actor/Director Bill Buckhurst talks about working with Walcott to bring Omeros to the stage at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse in London.

This documentary film of Walcott's life and work has been steadily making the rounds, and has even been translated into Italian.

This Paris Review interview goes deep into Walcott's family memories, work habits, and poetry.

Here you will find the New York Times review of Omeros from the year of the poem's publication.

Remember that moment in Omeros when Walcott visits hell and finds a special place reserved there for speculators who betray the people and the natural beauty of St. Lucia? He's found some more future inhabitants for that particular place of torture.

Walcott's candidacy for Professor of Poetry at Oxford University was compromised when "reminders" of his past indiscretions came to light.

This comprehensive interview/documentary was made at the time Omeros was released. It offers a good view of St. Lucia, as well as a series of in-depth conversations with the poet.

Here is the teaser for the documentary film on Walcott's life that premiered in 2013 at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival.

BBC Radio 4's "The Routes of English" discusses the interplay between Creole and English with Derek Walcott.

The foundation for Walcott's character Philoctete and his storyline—Sophocles's play and hero—is staged with a female in the starring role and war veterans in the chorus.

This is a podcast of Walcott discussing Omeros with the BBC's World Book Club.

In addition to his literary achievements, Walcott is a painter of some note. Here you will find several paintings of St. Lucia that were part of a show at the June Kelly Gallery in New York.

Experience the work of Winslow Homer, the creator of "The Gulf Stream." It was in this painting that Walcott recognized his character Achille.