White Egrets

Derek Walcott · 2010 CE · Poem · Caribbean · Contemporary

Late lyrics of St Lucia, of ageing, of friends dying and of the white egrets on a green pasture look back across a long life between islands and abroad. The poet returns to the sea and the light of his native island. A lyric collection by a Nobel laureate, awarded the Eliot Prize.

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