Comments on: Derek Walcott: Omeros

By: lulu brenda harris

lulu brenda harris — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:47:09 +0000

I am doing Omeros for my dissertation study and the poem is how can i put it -wow though a bit complex i love the whole Achille, Helen and Hector drama but one does get lost in Walcott’s use of poetic language, which is a good thing because one reads how Walcott uses his english for the descriptions and whole storyline. oh theres also some wit too.

By: reading matters #1 « Contraband Marriage

reading matters #1 « Contraband Marriage — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:33:58 +0000

[...] In Black by Patrice Rankin. So my literary-adventurer self decided to order that book as well as Omeros, an epic poetry book by Derek Walcott. [It won the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature.] I started with [...]

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:35:54 +0000

Well, this mess has resulted in an interesting anonymous poem. You can read it here.

By: Max Cairnduff

Max Cairnduff — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:13:24 +0000

On the subject of students and the pleasure of scholarship, I suspect for many students the driver isn’t the pleasure of scholarship but the pleasure of getting good enough marks to pass the course while simultaneously finding time to pass all their other courses.

Back when I studied English lit, for all I loved it, there were works I didn’t take to and any shortcut I could have found that would have helped me avoid reading the whole book would have been gratefully accepted.

And that was for a subject I liked, some students are just doing it because it’s obligatory. Not Carly, who talks about her love for Walcott’s poetry but a lack of time to read 300 pages (fair enough really), but many others.

Oh, and I went over to Carly’s blog, there’s a lovely anaylsis of Act II of Hamlet there in the style of Laguna Beach. Fun stuff. Carly likes Hamlet a lot more than I do, but I digress…

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:01:12 +0000

I am in the same boat as you. I can’t imagine that something that happened a quarter of a century ago — and was subject to debate then — would be relevant now. And then drawing attention to it. Oh well — glad I am not a poet looking for a chair.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:26:11 +0000

I found it incredible! I think she should be ashamed of herself. Not that Walcott was in the right in the first place (decades ago), but I can’t believe it came to that kind of dirty play.

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:46:06 +0000

Now I see that the successful candidate has resigned because she pointed journalists to the controversy from decades ago. Turns out the poetry world is much more political than I ever imagined — obviously another gaping hole on my part.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:42:59 +0000

It worked, though, Kevin. Smears drive Walcott from Oxford poetry professor race.

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:48:39 +0000

What a bizarre article. And here I thought poets were nice sedate people, above politics. Obviously I am wrong.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:12:42 +0000

Not a good day for Derek Walcott: Smear campaign dogs Derek Walcott's bid for Oxford professor of poetry.