Derek Walcott, the dramatist

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His victory over a first class field in the 2010 TS Eliot Poetry Prize last month elevated Derek Walcott yet higher in world literature and placed him yet again under the international spotlight.  It is not a position with which Walcott is unfamiliar, since this highly decorated artist is recognized as the best poet writing…..


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