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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T.S. Eliot Prize | 2010 | Winner |
About This Book
Derek Walcott's late collection is a meditation on ageing, loss, and the persistence of desire, set against the luminous landscape of St Lucia. The title poem observes egrets as emblems of grace in time. Walcott's command of the sonnet form is at its most distilled.
About the Author
Derek Walcott (1930–2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2010 for White Egrets. Read more →
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