Portrait of Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott (1930–2017), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, published more than forty plays and poetry collections in his lifetime, including White Egrets (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007). For twenty-seven years he was a member of AGNI ’s Advisory Board.

Louis Bourne’s interview with Walcott, “Just a Fisherman: Derek Walcott on Omeros,” appeared in AGNI 50. Walcott’s book-length poem Tiepolo’s Hound was reviewed in AGNI 52 by Diane Mehta.

Five days after Walcott’s death in March 2017, AGNI founder Askold Melnyczuk joined a conversation on the radio show On Point about the laureate’s life and poetry.

Order AGNI’s limited-edition broadside of Walcott’s “A Sea-Change.” The poem was first published in AGNI 67 and later reprinted in Harper’s and The Best American Poetry 2009.

AGNI has published the following work:

“Afternoon. Durrant’s...”

Poetry by Derek Walcott

“Perhaps it exists . . .”

Poetry by Derek Walcott

A Sea-Change

Poetry by Derek Walcott

from Tiepolo’s Hound: Book Four, Section XIX

Poetry by Derek Walcott

from Omeros, Book III: Achille in Africa, IV–XI

Poetry by Derek Walcott

AGNI has published the following translation:

Just a Fisherman: Derek Walcott on Omeros

Conversation by Louis Bourne Translated by Derek Walcott
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