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White Egrets Hardcover – 18 Mar. 2010

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In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time's cunning passages, the poet's place in all of this - with a passionate intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the systolic and mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott carries his surf-like cadence from poem to poem, and from sequence to sequence in this celebratory and close-knit collection.

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96 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Faber & Faber
Publication date

18 Mar. 2010
Dimensions

14.8 x 1.3 x 22.3 cm
ISBN-10

057125473X
ISBN-13

978-0571254736
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About the Author

Derek Walcott was born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930. The author of many plays and books of poetry, he was awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. He now divides his time between homes in St Lucia and New York.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (18 Mar. 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 057125473X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571254736
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.8 x 1.3 x 22.3 cm

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El Tophero

Not bad just hmmm!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2022

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Didn't do much for me.

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Barbara Gardner

Painting pictures in words

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2020

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This poetry book is full of wonderful poems.
Initially they are not easy because one looks for deep meaning. However these are a old man’s poems that paint in words pictures of his past.
These are poems that need to be read aloud.
The language Walcott uses to craft his poetry lifts you out of drab England and gives you a view of a different , very beautiful world.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2011

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Some beautiful poems by a master craftsman that evoke both the natural world of the Caribbean and the fragility of life, whether human or not. Walcott has an easy rhythm and a facility with images, raising plants and birds to the level of universal symbol.
The poems of travel in Europe register new experiences and a different pace of life.
This was a book well worth buying.

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Michael James

A marvel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2019

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A haunting supreme collection by a poet at the end of his life. Wonderfully repeated images.

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Jack Houlahan

I like Derek Walcott's poetry

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2016

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I like Derek Walcott's poetry; such a strong sense of what ties us to the physical world we emerge in and the human community that brings us into being

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Vampirewerewolfzombielover

A great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2016

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Bought for my sister as a Christmas present. She really enjoyed this book. It arrived in good time and was well packed.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 August 2014

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One of Walcott's best books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2011

This is a late masterpiece from a Nobel prize winning poet. It is superb from the first poem to the last. The themes are personal and universal. The poet is ageing and yet still feels a younger man in heart and loins. Walcott deals with this familiar territory of old age with honesty, poignancy and brilliant imagery. The poetry is rhymed throughout but with such delicacy and fluency that you will first read the book through without noticing. What will astound you is the stunning detail of landscape both external and internal. The book only grows on second and third reading and so on. Walcott is a master at weaving together the living fabric of his observation and thoughts. Included are wonderful descriptions of his trips abroad to Italy and Spain as well as the beloved domestic vistas of the Caribbean. He pays homage to various friends, alive and dead, and scores off an enemy who has despised his homeland. There are pages of reckoning with the British Empire and other political legacies, but mainly a reckoning with himself. This is a great work and there is room for remorse as well as defiance. It was wisely chosen as the Poetry Book Society Choice and won the T.S. Eliot Prize. In my opinion it is a far better book than Heaney's late work Human Chain which won the Forward and I am sure history will agree with me.

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