For many years Walcott lived abroad teaching and directing theater — often in Boston and New York — but his Windward Islands home always informed his work and worldview. The ocean is a ...

Walcott sees her as a kindred spirit. The Atlantic Ocean, for the young Rhys, is but a “rumorous haze behind the lime trees”; England, another rumor, is the “arches of the Thames” and ...

Derek Walcott, born in 1930 in St. Lucia ... trays of shellfish, and the cool ocean breeze on one's face.

We’ll dive once more into the dazzling literary legacy of Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet and playwright Derek Walcott ... English – through the ocean wave life of the islands.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The rich metaphors and descriptions in Derek Walcott’s ...