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     Derek Walcott (1930 - )

        Midsummer, Tobago

First Line: Broad sun-stoned beaches,

This poem is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It originally appeared in Walcott's 1976 collection Sea Grapes. It can be found in:

  • Strand, Mark, and Eavan Boland, eds. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

    Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment."