Bardic men behaving badly, from Lord Byron to Robert Lowell, are traditionally excused – while women poets are written off if they step out of line
March 2017
The Guardian view on music and poetry: growing up together
Editorial: Cultural forms built with words were once all indistinguishable, but in popular culture they are again coalescing. Figures such as Chuck Berry and Derek Walcott were part of bringing them together
Derek Walcott obituary
Nobel prize-winning poet who explored the cultural complexities of Caribbean life
Nobel laureate, poet and playwright Derek Walcott dead, aged 87
Walcott, who died in Saint Lucia, was famous for his monumental body of work that wove in Carribean history, particularly his epic Omeros
November 2015
Reading group
December's Reading group: books from the Caribbean
From Marlon James and Derek Walcott to CLR James, the enviably sunny islands have plenty to offer book fans in colder climes – but what should the Reading group grab as we hit that imaginary beach?
June 2014
The 10 best ...
The 10 best recordings of poets
Andrew Motion chooses his favourite poems read aloud by those who write them
May 2014
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 – review
This selection of Walcott's poetry, edited by Glyn Maxwell, is a reminder of the celebratory texture of the Nobel laureate's work. By Fiona Sampson
January 2014
TS Eliot poetry prize goes to Sinéad Morrissey's Parallax
Belfast's first poet laureate joins the ranks of Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott as winner of prestigious £15,000 award
May 2012
Derek Walcott: 'The Oxford poetry job would have been too much work'
As his reworking of Robinson Crusoe goes on stage, Derek Walcott talks about Caribbean culture, his spat with VS Naipaul - and why he didn't want the poetry job anyway
May 2011
Shortcuts
Poisonous literary feuds – and the men who could be peacemakers
Paul Theroux and VS Naipaul have made up. But there are other novelists still slugging it out in a war of words
February 2011
£50,000 prize for books about 'colour' announces shortlist
Warwick prize for writing pits poetry against anthropology, politics, science and fiction
January 2011
TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
July 2010
Forward poetry prize avoids Nobel laureate clash
Shortlist for this year's best poetry collection prize includes Seamus Heaney but overlooks Derek Walcott
March 2010
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott's poems may be unpeopled, but they are far from empty, says Sarah Crown
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott is a ghostly figure in this collection in which he contemplates his own demise, writes Kate Kellaway
