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Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by an oceanic consciousness, whose writing recognises at once the terrible gulfs between peoples and our common predicament.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021.
Further reading on and by Walcott in the LRB:
'Militia' by Derek Walcott: https://lrb.me/walcottmilitiapod
Ian Sansom: https://lrb.me/sansomwalcottpod
Nicholas Everett: https://lrb.me/everettwalcottpod
Stephen Brook: https://lrb.me/brookwalcottpod
Blake Morrison: https://lrb.me/morrisonwalcottpod
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Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by an oceanic consciousness, whose writing recognises at once the terrible gulfs between peoples and our common predicament.
To listen to this series ad free and to series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, sign up here:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadings
Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021.
Further reading on and by Walcott in the LRB:
'Militia' by Derek Walcott: https://lrb.me/walcottmilitiapod
Ian Sansom: https://lrb.me/sansomwalcottpod
Nicholas Everett: https://lrb.me/everettwalcottpod
Stephen Brook: https://lrb.me/brookwalcottpod
Blake Morrison: https://lrb.me/morrisonwalcottpod
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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