Podcasts about Derek Walcott

The queens super-gay it up with Stephanie Burt, the editor of the new poetry anthology, SUPER GAY POEMS.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTES:Check out SUPER GAY POEMS: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall, edited by Stephanie Burt, out on April 1, 2025. Read Hera Lindsay Bird's "Bisexuality"Check out Best New Zealand Poets and 20 Contemporary New Zealand Poets.Read JD McClatchy's "My Mammogram" The article we reference by the founders of AALR is "The World Doesn't Stop for Derek Walcott, or: An Exchange between Coeditors." Gerald Maa and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis.Here's a link, if you haven't listened to our episode "We Can Shift the Canon"Vendler's final book is called Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays, out from Penguin on September 2, 2025.Read "Breakfast with Miss Bishop"--Helen Vendler on Elizabeth Bishop.Read here for more about Essex Hemphill.Stephanie wrote about teaching the Taylor Swift course at Harvard for Vanity Fair.Read Stephanie's "Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift"The Tay Learning Podcast that Stephanie mentions can be found here.Read Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"

In this episode of The Poetry Exchange, poet Nick Makoha talks with us about the poem that has been a friend to him: 'White Egrets (I)' by Derek Walcott.Nick actually joined us back in 2017 at Pushkin House, London, and we are delighted to be sharing this conversation with you now. It is very special to hear Fiona in this conversation, with all her usual warmth and brilliance.Nick Makoha's latest collection 'The New Carthaginians' is published this month from Allen Lane - you can order/buy your copy here.The event for 'On the Brink of Touch' by Fiona Bennett is on 26th February at The Bedford in Balham, London, and live streamed. We'd love for you to join us, and you can book your places here!Dr Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet. His new collection is The New Carthaginians published by Penguin UK. Winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and the Poetry London Prize. In 2017, Nick's debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was one of the Guardian's best books of the year. He was the ICA 2023 Writer-in-Residence. He was the 2019 Writer-in-Residence for The Wordsworth Trust and Wasafiri. A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and Complete Works alumnus. He won the 2015 Brunel African Poetry Prize and the 2016 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Prize for his pamphlet Resurrection Man. His play The Dark—produced by Fuel Theatre and directed by JMK award-winner Roy Alexander—was on a national tour in 2019. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Alfred Fagon Award and won the 2021 Columbia International Play Reading prize. His poems have appeared in the Cambridge Review, the New York Times, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Rialto, Poetry London, TriQuarterly Review, 5 Dials, Boston Review, Callaloo Birmingham Lit Journal and Wasafiri.*********White EgretsBy Derek Walcott I The chessmen are as rigid on their chessboard as those life-sized terra-cotta warriors whose vowsto their emperor with bridle, shield and swordwere sworn by a chorus that has lost its voice;no echo in that astonishing excavation.Each soldier gave an oath, each gave his wordto die for his emperor, his clan, his nation,to become a chess soldier, breathlessly erectin shade or crossing sunlight, without hours – from clay to clay and odourlessly strict.If vows were visible they might see oursas changeless chessmen in the changing lighton the lawn outside where bannered breakers tossand palms gust with music that is time's above the chessmen's silence. Motion brings loss.A sable blackbird twitters in the limes. From White Egrets by Derek Walcott, Faber & Faber 2010. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Afrikas första modernist ville göra tabula rasa med den västerländska verskonsten. Dan Jönsson dyker ner i Rabearivelos tidlösa och gränslösa dikter. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Jag inser förstås genast att det är en överdrift, men tanken tål att tänkas: är det kanske så att poesin som litterärt fenomen blir särskilt livskraftig när den får växa på en ö? Till skillnad från prosan som behöver näringen från stora städer och från vida kontinenter hittar poesin sin form i en omgivning som begränsas av tydliga konturer, omgiven av ett främmande och obevekligt element som isolerar, det vill säga bokstavligen för-öigar diktaren och slipar tanken in på bara benet. Man kan rada upp namnen på de stora öpoeterna: Sappho på Lesbos, Irlands Yeats och Seamus Heaney, Elytis och Kazantzakis på Kreta, Derek Walcott på Saint Lucia. Och Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo på Madagaskar. Har de inte allihop någonting gemensamt?Som sagt, antagligen inte. Listan över undantagen blir förstås betydligt längre. Ändå kan jag inte riktigt släppa tanken när jag läser Rabearivelos poesi, rotad som den är i Madagaskars urskogar och röda jord, snärjd i de lianer som kartografiskt slingrar sig utmed öns stränder, hela tiden med en vaksam sidoblick mot horisonten, mot ett mytiskt ursprung någonstans på andra sidan havet, och med en längtan till de fjärran metropoler och kulturer som utgör den koloniala verklighetens flimrande hägringar. I dikten ”Trycksaker” manar han fram sin förväntan när postbåten kommer till ön med sin last av efterlängtade livstecken från världen bortom haven – ”dessa målande, svävande ark/ som kommit till mig från hela jordklotet”, som han formulerar det, och som för en stund befriar honom ur ”detta löjliga fängelse/ som förgäves övervakar bergen/ och skogarna, och haven”.Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo föddes 1901 som Joseph-Casimir; förnamnet ändrade han för att få nöjet att underteckna med samma initialer som sin store idol, den förromantiske filosofen och romanförfattaren Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Under hela sitt korta liv var han besatt av en stark, olycklig kärlek till den franska kolonialmaktens civilisation, dess ämbetsverk och traditioner, dess språk och dess kultur. Han härstammade på mödernet från en av öns kungliga familjer och hanterade sitt madagaskiska ursprung som en viktig lyrisk klangbotten i sina verk – men i grunden ändå som någonting han ville överskrida. Livet igenom hoppades han på en tjänst i den koloniala administrationen, och på att en gång få representera sitt land vid något stort evenemang i Paris. Inget av det blev verklighet. När han tog sitt liv 1937 hade han aldrig ens fått myndigheternas tillstånd att lämna Madagaskar. Med Ingemar Leckius pregnanta formulering i förordet till den första svenska utgåvan av hans dikter förblev Rabearivelo ”dubbelt landsflyktig, en furste av Ingenstans”.Ja – och Överallt, skulle jag vilja tillägga. För det är på många sätt just denna svävande, kosmopolitiska hemlöshet som gör hans dikter så på en gång både tidlösa och gränslösa. De dröjer i ena stunden vid en hemlig, mytisk källa mitt i urskogen för att i nästa tala till Keats grekiska urna; de kan besjunga sebutjurens seniga kropp eller det fasta gula skalet hos en mango och kastar sig sedan in i en målning av Gauguin. Allt är nära, allt är lika verkligt – från kullarna runt huvudstaden Antananarivo, som han aldrig lämnar, besvärjer han de böljande risfälten och eukalyptusskogens höga pelarsalar, busksvinen och utriggarpirogerna, och det i en fritt krängande lyrisk vers som ekar av symbolister som Rimbaud och Mallarmé. Allt hänger samman, som han skriver: ”samma himmel är alltid världens tak” – poetens språk är liksom brevbärarens postväska ett hemligt skrin för ”hela världens tanke”.Jag skulle tro att denna geografiska melankoli, denna smärtsamma försoning med världens väldighet är något som känns igen av var och en som någon gång färdats med fingret över en karta eller låtit blicken dröja vid bilderna från platser som man aldrig kommer att få se. För Rabearivelo förblev den alltså ohjälpligt ett öppet sår. Till skillnad från en annan samtida lyrisk pionjär från det franska Afrika, Senegals Léopold Senghor, som gjorde sig hemmastadd i imperiets centrum och med tiden blev en av dess starkaste antikoloniala röster, tvingades Rabearivelo till en tillvaro i marginalen. Visserligen publicerades hans dikter; visserligen förde han en livlig korrespondens med franska kollegor som André Gide – det kunde komma dussintals brev på samma gång med den där postbåten – men sin publik hade han huvudsakligen på Madagaskar, och den var begränsad. Liksom förstås den litterära offentligheten på ön.För mig hämtar alltså hans lyrik en särskild kraft just ur denna begränsning, denna isolering. De dikter som har överlevt till vår tid finns främst i hans två sena diktsamlingar ”Presque-songes” (Nästan-drömmar) från 1934 och ”Traduit de la nuit” (Tolkat från natten) som gavs ut året därpå. Båda genomströmmas av ett sorts revanschlystet, upproriskt svårmod som i den madagaskiska naturen och kulturen hittat verktygen för att, som han själv uttrycker det, ”göra tabula rasa med den västerländska verskonstens alla kineserier”. Här är han förstås på samma våglängd som många av de franskspråkiga diktare och konstnärer som i början av nittonhundratalet söker impulser till förnyelse i de traditionella utomeuropeiska kulturerna. Rabearivelo inser att han alldeles inpå knutarna har tillgång till just en sådan kraftkälla, och vill på samma sätt söka sig mot något ursprungligt och allmänmänskligt, förklarar han – ”genom att spörja min egen jord, genom att konfrontera mig blott med mina döda”.I ”Presque-songes”, som skrevs samtidigt på både franska och malagassiska och sedan 2024 också finns på svenska i sin helhet, blir det övergripande projektet att försöka mana fram den röst, den ”sång” han anar binder samman allt i tid och rum. Kaktusen med dess hårda pansar runt sitt livgivande vatten, lianernas kraftfulla slingrande, den gamle mannens blick som vaknar till med en ungdomlig glimt, makakernas gåtfulla tjattrande och anfädernas övervuxna gravar – allt talar med i grunden samma ton, en mörk vibration av trotsigt liv i skuggan av den annalkande döden: ”det svaga ekot”, som han skriver, ”av en inre sång/ som växer och mullrar”. Dikterna är kraftfulla och omedelbara, mättade med blixtrande konkreta bilder som i den följande boken, ”Tolkat från natten”, stegras till en ny nivå i en svit namnlösa strofer där Rabearivelo målar upp en alldeles egenartad, gnistrande mörkervärld. I dessa dikter, varav ett urval också finns på svenska, har de skarpa bilderna övergått i kusliga förvandlingsnummer, den livgivande sången i ett djupt, och närapå extatiskt, existentiellt främlingskap. Likt nattens ”svarte glasmästare” ser poeten sitt verk falla sönder mellan sina händer. Hjälplös och ensam. På väg från livets ö, till dödens.Dan Jönssonförfattare och essäistLitteraturJean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Nästan-drömmar. Översättning av Eric Luth. Vendels förlag, 2024.Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Dikter. I urval och tolkning av Ingemar och Mikaela Leckius. FIBs lyrikklubb, 1973.

Aeneas really, really does not want to be in this poem. As in, he would rather be dead. That's how the Aeneid starts out: when we're introduced to our hero he's a very unwilling participant in a grand plan for world history, and he doesn't feel remotely up to the task. Virgil might have felt the same way, crushed under the political and artistic pressure of telling a founding story for Rome's new era. Which makes this a perfect time to read the poem, as a troubled America gets ready to celebrate 250 years since its own founding.  Use code HERETICS to get 10% off Field of Greens: fieldofgreens.com A helpful list of translations: https://foundinantiquity.com/2023/12/05/do-we-have-too-many-english-translations-of-the-aeneid/#:~:text=In%20general%2C%20there%20is%20not,English%20translations%20of%20the%20Aeneid. Order Light of the Mind, Light of the World (and rate it five stars): https://a.co/d/2QccOfM Mailbag: Check out Omeros, by Derek Walcott

Our first book show of the year is a first-time novelist, Karissa Chen.  Her new book Homecoming is a novel a portrait in longing, an epoch love story between two characters torn apart by political unrest at the time of the Communist Revolution in China.  It's ambitious, it's beautiful and it's one of the best historical portrayals of China's complex histories we have ever read.  Join us! Books mentioned in this week's episode: Homecoming by Karissa Chen Written on the Water by Eileen Chang Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by DerekWalcott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nicola Crocetti è tra i maggiori editori italiani, l'ultimo grande testimone di un mondo, nel tempo, radicalmente cambiato. Ma Crocetti non è unicamente il fondatore della casa editrice che porta il suo nome e di Poesia, la rivista di cultura poetica più diffusa d'Europa e che ha fatto conoscere in prima traduzione mondiale futuri premi Nobel come Derek Walcott e Tomas Tranströmer. Gli dobbiamo anche la versione nella nostra lingua del meglio della letteratura neogreca, da Seferis a Elitis, da Kazantzakis e Ritsos, lui nato in Grecia nel 1940 e alla cultura greca intimamente legato.Oggi Nicola Crocetti continua a tradurre e a seguire le proprie creature, acquisite nel 2020 dal gruppo Feltrinelli. Massimo Zenari lo ha intervistato nella sua casa di Milano.

Cosa succede se si ha la fortuna di tradurre i versi tanto amati di un poeta apprezzato in tutto il mondo? Ne parliamo con Matteo Campagnoli, traduttore di Derek Walcott, a partire dall'ultima raccolta del poeta caraibico, Egrette bianche. In questo libro dai toni elegiaci si affollano ricordi, descrizioni di luoghi e figure amiche, come il poeta russo Joseph Brodsky, “anima serafica”, e prezioso interlocutore.  L'amicizia, dono della vita, diventa un tema centrale nella riflessione di un poeta anziano, che ha un acuto presentimento di avvicinarsi alla fine, eppure non smette di sorprendere con la forza delle immagini e del ritmo.Mahogany © 2024 by Giovanni Cascavilla is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

First broadcast on April 11, 1972. Colonial West Indies & Caribbean poet Derek Walcott talks about the traditions of poetry not purely being just the written words. Poetry, says Walcott, is also oral poetry that's found in folk songs, folk tales and calypso music. Walcott's play, "Dream on Monkey Mountain" is about Makak, an old hermit who lived on Monkey Mountain his whole life, and was now being kicked off the mountain.

Daily QuoteWhen the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. (Wilma Rudolph)Poem of the DayStarDerek WalcottBeauty of the Words三体刘慈欣

Hello to you listening in Flushing, Borough of Queens, New York!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga.Maybe like me you stop and wonder who you are, where is the girl (or fellow) who used to be you, whether you're on the right track, and so on. It feels insecure, doesn't it, not to have all the answers sometimes. Perhaps there is great wisdom in resting in that insecurity, stop resisting, stop pushing back, wait for the time (and the answer) that will come.The poet, Derek Walcott might have been musing on these questions when he wrote Love After Love. He might have known his words would bring comfort, hope, anticipation, maybe even optimism. That's what poets do.  Love After Love“The time will comewhen, with elationyou will greet yourself arrivingat your own door, in your own mirrorand each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.You will love again the stranger who was your self.Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heartto itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignoredfor another, who knows you by heart.Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes,peel your own image from the mirror.Sit. Feast on your life.” [- by Derek Walcott] You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out Services I Offer,✓ Arrange your no-sales, Complimentary Coaching Consult,✓ Opt In to my Every Now & Again NewsAudioLetter for bonus gift, valuable tips & techniques to enhance your story work, and✓ Stay current with Diane on Substack and LinkedInStories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved. 

West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott made his debut as an 18-year-old with In a Green Night. For many years he divided his time among Saint Lucia; Boston University, where he taught; and Trinidad, where he managed a theater. Walcott also worked as an artist and combined his poetry with painting in the volume Tiepolo's Hound (2005).Walcott's works often deal with Caribbean history, while he simultaneous searches for vestiges of the colonial era. Western literary canon is revised and given a completely new form, as in the poetry collection Omeros (1990). In his writing Walcott explores the complexity of living and working in two cultures.-bio via Nobel Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

With all of the focus on love the past month, it's important to remember to love ourselves. Join Mandy as she discusses how we are each "wonderfully and fearfully made," (Ps. 139:13-18). Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes  

Daily QuoteSuccess is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. (Pele)Poem of the DayThe Morning MoonDerek WalcottBeauty of WordsWhat Goes Around, Comes Around]]>

How can a poet choose between his language and his idea of home? A postcolonial turn this week, as Jahan Ramazani joins the podcast to talk about Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa."Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Professor and the Director of Modern and Global Studies in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, most recently Poetry in a Global Age (Chicago, 2020). Please follow, rate, and review the podcast if you like what you hear. Share an episode with a friend. And subscribe to my Substack, where you'll get occasional updates about the podcast and my other work.

Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski: Poetry and Empire https://www.bu.edu/european/files/2014/12/Chapter1_Layout-1.pdf https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz https://poets.org/poet/robert-pinsky Pinsky, R. (2012) Selected poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Today, Burl Horniachek chats with Grace about pre-nineteenth-century Christian poetry from other parts of the world that he collected in a lovely volume from Cascade Books called To Heaven's Rim. From early Syrian poets like Romanos the Melodist to seventeenth-century Chinese artist Wu Li, the selection of Christian poetry is wide and fascinating! Burl Horniachek is a Canadian high school teacher, poet, translator and editor. He was born in Saskatoon and grew up near Edmonton. He studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Hebrew/Ancient Israel) at the University of Toronto and creative writing at the University of Alberta with Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott. He currently lives near Winnipeg with his wife and two kids.  

An invitation to feast on your life. Reflections from host Lisa Colon DeLay and a poem by Nobel Prize winner Caribbean luminary, Derek Walcott

John Plotz of Recall This Book spoke in 2020 with Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English professor and Conrad scholar about his marvelous new book on that grumpiest of Nobel laureates, V. S Naipaul's Journeys. Krishnan sees the “contrarian and unsentimental” Trinidad-born but globe-trotting novelist and essayist as early and brilliant at noticing the unevenness with which the blessings and curses of modernity were distributed in the era of decolonization. Centrally, Naipaul realized and reckoned with the always complex and messy question of the minority within postcolonial societies. He talks with John about Naipaul's early focus on postcolonial governments, and how unusual it was in the late 1950's for colonial intellectuals to focus on “the discomfiting aspects of postcolonial life….and uneven consequences of the global transition into modernity.” Most generatively of all, Sanjay insists that the “troublesome aspect is what gives rise to what's most positive in Naipaul.” Discussed in the Episode Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country (2012) George Lamming, e.g. (In the Castle of My Skin, 1953) V. S. Naipaul, The Suffrage of Elvira (1957) Miguel Street (1959) Area of Darkness (1964) The Mimic Men (1967) A Bend in the River (1979) V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State (1971) Aya Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” Nobel Acceptance Speech Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back (1989 theoretical work on postcolonialism) Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008) Marlon James (eg. The Book of Night Women, 2009) Beyonce, “Formation“ Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (1961) Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (1966) Willa Cather “Two Friends” in Obscure Destinies  Read Here: 43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

John Plotz of Recall This Book spoke in 2020 with Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English professor and Conrad scholar about his marvelous new book on that grumpiest of Nobel laureates, V. S Naipaul's Journeys. Krishnan sees the “contrarian and unsentimental” Trinidad-born but globe-trotting novelist and essayist as early and brilliant at noticing the unevenness with which the blessings and curses of modernity were distributed in the era of decolonization. Centrally, Naipaul realized and reckoned with the always complex and messy question of the minority within postcolonial societies. He talks with John about Naipaul's early focus on postcolonial governments, and how unusual it was in the late 1950's for colonial intellectuals to focus on “the discomfiting aspects of postcolonial life….and uneven consequences of the global transition into modernity.” Most generatively of all, Sanjay insists that the “troublesome aspect is what gives rise to what's most positive in Naipaul.” Discussed in the Episode Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country (2012) George Lamming, e.g. (In the Castle of My Skin, 1953) V. S. Naipaul, The Suffrage of Elvira (1957) Miguel Street (1959) Area of Darkness (1964) The Mimic Men (1967) A Bend in the River (1979) V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State (1971) Aya Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” Nobel Acceptance Speech Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back (1989 theoretical work on postcolonialism) Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008) Marlon James (eg. The Book of Night Women, 2009) Beyonce, “Formation“ Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (1961) Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (1966) Willa Cather “Two Friends” in Obscure Destinies  Read Here: 43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Plotz of Recall This Book spoke in 2020 with Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English professor and Conrad scholar about his marvelous new book on that grumpiest of Nobel laureates, V. S Naipaul's Journeys. Krishnan sees the “contrarian and unsentimental” Trinidad-born but globe-trotting novelist and essayist as early and brilliant at noticing the unevenness with which the blessings and curses of modernity were distributed in the era of decolonization. Centrally, Naipaul realized and reckoned with the always complex and messy question of the minority within postcolonial societies. He talks with John about Naipaul's early focus on postcolonial governments, and how unusual it was in the late 1950's for colonial intellectuals to focus on “the discomfiting aspects of postcolonial life….and uneven consequences of the global transition into modernity.” Most generatively of all, Sanjay insists that the “troublesome aspect is what gives rise to what's most positive in Naipaul.” Discussed in the Episode Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country (2012) George Lamming, e.g. (In the Castle of My Skin, 1953) V. S. Naipaul, The Suffrage of Elvira (1957) Miguel Street (1959) Area of Darkness (1964) The Mimic Men (1967) A Bend in the River (1979) V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State (1971) Aya Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” Nobel Acceptance Speech Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back (1989 theoretical work on postcolonialism) Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008) Marlon James (eg. The Book of Night Women, 2009) Beyonce, “Formation“ Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (1961) Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (1966) Willa Cather “Two Friends” in Obscure Destinies  Read Here: 43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/caribbean-studies

John Plotz of Recall This Book spoke in 2020 with Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English professor and Conrad scholar about his marvelous new book on that grumpiest of Nobel laureates, V. S Naipaul's Journeys. Krishnan sees the “contrarian and unsentimental” Trinidad-born but globe-trotting novelist and essayist as early and brilliant at noticing the unevenness with which the blessings and curses of modernity were distributed in the era of decolonization. Centrally, Naipaul realized and reckoned with the always complex and messy question of the minority within postcolonial societies. He talks with John about Naipaul's early focus on postcolonial governments, and how unusual it was in the late 1950's for colonial intellectuals to focus on “the discomfiting aspects of postcolonial life….and uneven consequences of the global transition into modernity.” Most generatively of all, Sanjay insists that the “troublesome aspect is what gives rise to what's most positive in Naipaul.” Discussed in the Episode Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country (2012) George Lamming, e.g. (In the Castle of My Skin, 1953) V. S. Naipaul, The Suffrage of Elvira (1957) Miguel Street (1959) Area of Darkness (1964) The Mimic Men (1967) A Bend in the River (1979) V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State (1971) Aya Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” Nobel Acceptance Speech Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back (1989 theoretical work on postcolonialism) Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008) Marlon James (eg. The Book of Night Women, 2009) Beyonce, “Formation“ Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (1961) Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (1966) Willa Cather “Two Friends” in Obscure Destinies  Read Here: 43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

John Plotz of Recall This Book spoke in 2020 with Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English professor and Conrad scholar about his marvelous new book on that grumpiest of Nobel laureates, V. S Naipaul's Journeys. Krishnan sees the “contrarian and unsentimental” Trinidad-born but globe-trotting novelist and essayist as early and brilliant at noticing the unevenness with which the blessings and curses of modernity were distributed in the era of decolonization. Centrally, Naipaul realized and reckoned with the always complex and messy question of the minority within postcolonial societies. He talks with John about Naipaul's early focus on postcolonial governments, and how unusual it was in the late 1950's for colonial intellectuals to focus on “the discomfiting aspects of postcolonial life….and uneven consequences of the global transition into modernity.” Most generatively of all, Sanjay insists that the “troublesome aspect is what gives rise to what's most positive in Naipaul.” Discussed in the Episode Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country (2012) George Lamming, e.g. (In the Castle of My Skin, 1953) V. S. Naipaul, The Suffrage of Elvira (1957) Miguel Street (1959) Area of Darkness (1964) The Mimic Men (1967) A Bend in the River (1979) V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State (1971) Aya Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” Nobel Acceptance Speech Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back (1989 theoretical work on postcolonialism) Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008) Marlon James (eg. The Book of Night Women, 2009) Beyonce, “Formation“ Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (1961) Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (1966) Willa Cather “Two Friends” in Obscure Destinies  Read Here: 43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Today's poem is Love After Love by Derek Walcott. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem dramatizes the important act of rediscovering and intimately coming to love who one is, in all our complexities. It's a famous poem that teaches devotion of self before we make ourselves available to others.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

“Language doesn't just exist on the page … It's about how you embody it.”  How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair is a poetic memoir about growing up as a Rastafari woman in Jamaica and how words and writing empowered her voice. Sinclair joins us to talk about the literary connections in her poetry, shedding light on the reality of her upbringing, and the identity that comes with writing and reading with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.       Featured Books (Episode):  How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair  Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair  The Tempest by William Shakespeare  Educated by Tara Westover  The Star-Apple Kingdom by Derek Walcott 

Franco Buffoni"Invettive e distopie"Interlinea Edizionihttps://interlinea.comPordenoneleggeVenerdì 15 settembre 2023, ore 18:00Poetica e criticaPordenone | La Libreria della Poesia, Palazzo GregorisCon Franco Buffoni e Italo Testa. Presenta Tommaso Di DioDi che cosa parliamo quando parliamo di verità? Di una verità di fatto, di un'evidenza da salvaguardare, oppure di una verità ancora da svelare? Italo Testa nel suo Autorizzare la speranza indaga sulle forme e sulla capacità della parola attuale di rapportarsi alla realtà e al futuro. Franco Buffoni, nelle sue Invettive e distopie, riesce a "tradurci" in spazi e tempi passati e presenti, nella speranza che la trasformazione della morfologia umana, la clonazione e la criogenizzazione non giungano a riabilitare l'eugenetica e a liquidare lo stato di diritto.Babel Festival, BellinzonaDomenica 17 settembre 2023, ore 10:00La poesia è un'isola. Leta Semadeni (Gran premio svizzero di letteratura 2023), Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh e Francesco Ottonello sono poeti delle isole. Isole geografiche e linguistiche. Tra romancio, gaelico e sardo, e la lingua della poesia che, come l'ha definita Derek Walcott, “è un'isola che si stacca dalla terraferma”.Ad accompagnarci nel viaggio, il poeta e traduttore Franco Buffoni.Qual è l'esperienza della lettura nella nostra società tra invettive e distopie, guerre e sovranismo, censure e reticenze, omofobia e stato di diritto? Dalla Ferrara degli Estensi all'Inghilterra di Huxley e Orwell, Franco Buffoni propone un personalissimo viaggio nella letteratura e nella cultura perché «il nostro Paese ha bisogno come il pane di una normalizzazione delle reazioni emotive di fronte alla non univocità del desiderio amoroso». Così gli scrittori, da Dante a Pasolini, aiutano nella ricerca del senso profondo non soltanto di un libro ma di un'intera esistenza.Franco Buffoni, nato a Gallarate nel 1948, vive a Roma. ha pubblicato le raccolte di poesia Suora carmelitana (Guanda, Parma 1997, 20192), Il profilo del Rosa (Mondadori, Milano 2000), Theios (Interlinea, Novara 2001), Guerra (Mondadori, Milano 2005), Noi e loro (Donzelli, Roma 2008), Roma (Guanda, Parma 2009), Jucci (Mondadori, Milano 2014), O Germania (Interlinea, Novara 20152), Avrei fatto la fine di Turing (Donzelli, Roma 2015), La linea del cielo (Garzanti, Milano 2018). L'Oscar Poesie 1975-2012 (Mondadori, Milano 2012) raccoglie la sua opera poetica.Per Marcos y Marcos Franco Buffoni dirige il semestrale “Testo a fronte” e ha tradotto Una piccola tabaccheria. Quaderno di traduzioni, 2012. Per Mondadori ha tradotto Poeti romantici inglesi (2005). È autore dei romanzi Più luce, padre (Sossella, Roma 2006), Zamel (Marcos y Marcos, Milano 2009), Il servo di Byron (Fazi, Roma 2012), La casa di via Palestro (Marcos y Marcos, Milano 2014), Due pub tre poeti e un desiderio (Marcos y Marcos, Milano 2019), Silvia è un anagramma (Marcos y Marcos, Milano 2020). Con Interlinea ha pubblicato anche Con il testo a fronte. Indagine sul tradurre e l'essere tradotti (2016) e Gli strumenti della poesia. Manuale e diario di poetica (2020)https://francobuffoni.comIL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

Hello to you listening in Flushing, Borough of Queens, New York!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga.Maybe like me you stop and wonder who you are, where is the girl (or fellow) who used to be you, whether you're on the right track, and so on. It feels insecure, doesn't it, not to have all the answers sometimes. Perhaps there is great wisdom in resting in that insecurity, stop resisting, stop pushing back, wait for the time (and the answer) that will come.The poet, Derek Walcott might have been musing on these questions when he wrote Love After Love. He might have known his words would bring comfort, hope, anticipation, maybe even optimism. That's what poets do.  Love After Love“The time will comewhen, with elationyou will greet yourself arrivingat your own door, in your own mirrorand each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.You will love again the stranger who was your self.Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heartto itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignoredfor another, who knows you by heart.Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes,peel your own image from the mirror.Sit. Feast on your life.” [- by Derek Walcott] You're invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out What I Offer,✓ Arrange your free Story Session call + Bonus gift,✓ Opt In to my monthly Newsletter for valuable tips & techniques to enhance your story work, and✓ Stay current with Diane and on LinkedIn.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present: for credit & attribution Quarter Moon Story Arts

In this meander, we talk about how stillness and curiosity, and withholding self-judgement, are key to seeing oneself with clarity. How we live lives of “busy-ness” so we can avoid hearing ourselves, our true selves, speak from our hearts… how boredom is a gift, and is often avoided in our highly technical, connected, world."The hardest work is to look at your life and love it exactly as it is right now,"  says Anjali in this meander... what a great invitation to look inside ourselves and find joy, right here, right now.I hope you enjoy this glorious exploration!Episode Links:Chapman Coaching Inc.Anjali on FaceBook, “You, Me, and the Dress”, LinkedIn, and on InstagramPoems we referenced: "Don't Hesitate" by Mary Oliver, and "The Uses of Sorrow"; "The Guesthouse" by Rumi; "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott; and song by Ray LaMontagne "Be Here Now"Dan Harris and his book "Ten Percent Happier"Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-HumaPlease send thoughts and comments to meanderingswithtrudy@gmail.com

In this episode Gyles and Aphra Brandreth meet Kendel Hippolyte an award winning poet, playwright, director and sporadic researcher into areas of Saint Lucian and Caribbean arts and culture. Kendel shares his love of St Lucia and its rich culture. Discussing the influence of poets including William Blake, who he describes as a poet who spans the political and cosmological, and the great St Lucian poet Derek Walcott. Poems this episode include: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes by Kendel Hippolyte; Avocado by Kendel Hippolyte; Mango by John Robert Lee; and Geography for Robert by Jane King 

Dive into the realm of self-compassion and forgiveness in this episode of 'Words That Burn'. We delve deep into the transformative words of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, particularly focusing on his acclaimed poem 'Love After Love'.Walcott's poetry shines a light on the intricate dynamics of self, identity, and culture within the larger context of Western literature. His powerful verses have not only earned him significant accolades, including the MacArthur Genius Grant, but have also stirred controversy and discussion amongst his contemporaries.In 'Love After Love', we explore how Walcott masterfully navigates the journey of personal healing and self-reconciliation through evocative imagery and poignant themes. We also uncover Walcott's unique perspective on his position within the Western literary canon, sparking an insightful look at the role of cultural identity in literature.Join me as we unravel the intricacies of Walcott's poetry, hear snippets from thought-provoking interviews, and delve into what led to the enduring influence of Walcott's work.Substack ScriptInstagramTwitterTik Tok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Good evening, Sleepyheads! So glad you could join me for another episode of Sleeping with Heather :). 00:00:45 - Yoga Nidra 00:08:33 - poetry begins 00:09:00 - The Wind by Jayden 00:15:41 - Fireflies by Dani Elle - Dani Elle recently published a book of poetry. You can find it on Amazon via this link: https://tinyurl.com/4enu44t9 You can also follow her on IG @prose_elle 00:17:56 - Instructions On Not Giving Up by Ada Limon 00:21:29 - We Stopped at Perfect Days by Richard Brautigan 00:23:48 - All in Green Went My Love Riding by E. E. Cummings 00:28:48 - The Kitten by Ogden Nash 00:30:21 - Poetry by former poet laureate, Derek Walcott 00:30:30 - Love after Love by Derek Walcott 00:31:51 - The Harvest by Derek Walcott 00:34:01 - Midsummer Tobago by Derek Walcott 00:35:29 - Shopping for ingredients to make potato Salad If you like what you hear and would like to support my show, I'd be so very grateful. Thanks for supporting my lil' side gig: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ZzzwithH... patreon.com/user?u=12068455 To have your work read and shared with my audience, drop me a line at slowdownchillout@gmail.com and be sure to put "Podcast Submission" in the subject line. Thanks for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleepingwithheather/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleepingwithheather/support

David Boothman, one of 6 siblings, is a celebrated composer, artist, musician, and educator, currently serves as Master Artist in Residence at the University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT), and the chairman of Caribbean Renaissance Foundation, founded 8/2012 -  which is a fusion of creative entities plowing the ground for a cultural revitalization and the re-invention of the Caribbean identity; an innovative strategic engine creating the platform for a proactive and inter- active transformation of culture, education and tourism; shaping the future of an integrated Caribbean by preserving its heritage, through the advancement of the arts, science, education, culture and tourism; and highlighting the war heroes who brought pride to and beyond to its shores  - has been involved in the arts for over 45 years. "Booty/Ze Boots" comes from a family of artists and musicians. His uncles, Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder, are two of the best known artists from the Caribbean.Two of his brothers, Michael and Roger are also awarded artists and musicians. David attended Queen's Royal College in Trinidad and won a scholarship to Pratt Institute, New York, to study Art and became an honor graduate of the institute. In addition to being a top artist, David is also an accomplished Jazz pianist and composer. He moved to the United States in 1996 where he managed several bands. With his older brother, Michael, keyboardist David Boothman, would begin their experiments in that new fusion of African music, Shango rhythms, jazz, calypso, even flirting with the musical seeds of what would become soca in a few years, with David composing and original called “So Dey Say'' which won Best Arrangement and Best Original Composition. The band “Family Tree'' consisting of the Boothman brothers which later included the steelpan prodigy teenager, Len “Boogsie” Sharp and other wonderful artists, toured with Derek Walcott's Trinidad Theatre Workshop including Andre Tanker, the great Trinidadian flutist of the time, as well as international Jazz and Caribbean music festivals. David is the founder of CAJE Caribbean Art Jazz Ensemble and Founder/Director of the Caribbean Arts Central and Transcendental Caribbean. As a composer, artist, musician and educator, he has received numerous awards for arts in education and multi-media arts production in Trinidad and the US. In 1980, he was awarded a government scholarship through the Prime Minister's Best Village. Boothman has written and produced soundtracks for documentaries, composed jingles and has performed and recorded with Caribbean-performing leading artists. His paintings have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, OAS, the National Museum in Dallas, Texas, as well international corporate buildings in Europe and Latin America. His works have been published in several publications, including  the Musical America International Directory of Performing Art annually and the International Review of African American Art.  "As a colorist, I am moved by color relationships, the subtleties of texture, nuances of line and shape, creating forms from abstract to figurative, from impressionism to cubism, from expression to quasi-realism." As a musician, he is compelled to explore the relationship of color and sound from a mystical sense. Check out his Caribbean Renaissance Foundation at: https://www.caribbean-renaissance.org/about/ Follow him @boothmandavid Check him out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzB11HHjFs4 AND link up with him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-boothman-b1372a22/

DR. CAROL LACHAPELLE: holds a PhD from UTT and Master of Arts from the University of the West Indies. She is a graduate of The London College of Dance and Drama, Dartford College of Education, University of London. Artistic Director of the La Chapelle Dance Company of Trinidad and Tobago. The first Trinidadian to gain Honours in the Royal Academy Ballet Examinations and an exhibition winner. and received her early dance training from Helen Mary Kay. Awarded an Island Scholarship she studied dance in the UK, graduating with the Progress Cup and distinctions in Dance, Drama and Education. She has collaborated with Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott and artists like Galt Mc Dermot, composer of Hair, Roscoe Lee Brown, US, Andre Tanker, Le Roi Clarke, Greg Doran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Elizabeth Bergmann, dance director at Harvard University and top local artists Choo Kong, Spencer, Manwarren, Machel Montano and Noble Douglas. In the UK she has worked with Greta Mendez in The Man Who Lit up the World at the Hacknet Empire and the film A Hard Rain. Choreographed the Trinidad High Commission Awards, the UK Arts production -Vodou Nation for Haiti's 200 year Independence in Haiti and at the Hackney Empire, London. Associate director and choreographer for Carnival Messiah (theatre production and film), she performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Harewood, Queens Hall, Royal Albert Hall, the HRH Prince Charles Charity, at the Theatre Royal, London and West Yorkshire Playhouse Galas. Artistic Director of the La Chapelle-Douglas Dance Company she presented Seasons of dance for stage and television with dancers like Natalie Rogers, (Bucket USA), Andre Largen (Alvin Ailey), Nadine Mose (Ballet Hispaniola) and Allison Brown (Carnival Queen) Diane Harvey (Forces of Nature) Mary Barnett (Alvin Ailey) Nina De Shane Gill (Grand Ballet, Canada) Bob Marley, Karen Kain, Melba Moore and Jose Feliciano. As La Chapelle Dance Company, she opened the Derek Walcott Theatre St. Lucia, performed at Florida International and she taught at Harvard as artist in Residence. Her company has toured many ineternational countries. She has worked with Peter Minshall's -Paradise Lost, River and the Atlanta Olympics and for the Opening ceremony of the Summit of the Americas with Brian McFarlane, POS.  Carol is a producer, dance educator, and presenter of seminars and workshops on dance in the Caribbean, USA and Europe and has served as an executive and term President of the National Dance Association, and as Dance Examiner (TT/Martinique), on The Foundation for the Arts (Cabinet Appointed Committee), VAPA Curriculum Design Team and is on the Board of Management of Queen's Hall. Awards include Outstanding Choreography in Theatre, 2003 for Carnival Messiah and Best Actress for Testimony, 1991. She is the Winner of five Cassique awards for Choreography in theatre, the President's Award for Excellence in the Arts, The National Dance Association Emeritus Award and International Women Award for Pioneering Women. In 2012 she received the NWAC award for Outstanding Contribution to development in the Arts. In 2019 she was honoured by The Rotary club & as a Cultural Legend by The Ministry of Culture. 2020 saw her honoured by Queens Hall on International Teachers Day. Dr. La Chapelle served as Arts coordinator and Assistant Professor in dance at UTT until 2018. She served on the VAPA team for the Diploma in Ed at UWI in 2019 and is currently MA supervisor at APA, UTT. La Chapelle has presented Zoom sessions on ‘Dancing the Mas' in London, Canada & the Caribbean…More details can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/carol.lachapelle2/ Check out full chat at: ozziestewart.com/onthecallpodcastEpisode sponsored by: Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad & Tobago @tt_esc https://www.emancipationtt.com Art on flyer by: @voodofe  Music by: JLC Media @jacylamarcampbell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ozzie-stewart/support

Curator Barnaby Wright transports us from the Courtauld Gallery in London, to the Caribbean island of Trinidad, as seen - and heard - by Peter Doig, one of Europe's most highly valued contemporary painters. Peter Doig's vast figurative paintings pay homage to the many places where he has lived and practiced - though never really called home. Born in Edinburgh in 1959, his career has been characterised by constant travel and movement, and his status as Europe's most expensive living artist. But his landscapes are layered in with multiple, and more popular, inspirations - like found photographs, films, and above all, music - settings which move between figuration and abstraction, actuality and the imagination. Trinidad is perhaps the unlikely focus of the Courtauld Gallery's new exhibition, which shows works painted since Doig's recent return to London from the Caribbean, where he has lived since 2002. Mainstream art markets often prize Doig's isolated Canadian mountain scenes, influenced by the likes of Edvard Munch, but here we see the artist as an active participant in Port of Spain's local community, practicing with the BBC's Boscoe Holder, poet Derek Walcott, and prisoners on the island of Carrera. Curator Dr. Barnaby Wright delves into Doig's loving depictions of the Mighty Shadow, a titan of Trinidadian calypso and soca, why Carnival keeps him working all night, and how the self-portrayed ‘outsider' both draws from - and challenges - exotifying gazes on non-European subjects from post-Impressionists like Paul Gauguin. Peter Doig runs at the Courtauld Gallery in London until 29 May 2023. WITH: Dr. Barnaby Wright, curator of Peter Doig. He is the Deputy Head of the Courtauld Gallery and Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art. ART: ‘Painting on an Island (Carrera), Peter Doig (2019)'. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES at: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

To mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC World Service, we trace the development of the Caribbean Service. Its beginnings go back to the early 1940s when the BBC's first black producer, Una Marson was employed. She created Caribbean Voices, which gave future Nobel laureates such as Derek Walcott their first international platform. In 1969, one of the UK's best known newsreaders, Sir Trevor McDonald, left Trinidad to join the BBC Caribbean Service as a producer. He reflects on its legacy. Produced and presented by Josephine McDermott. Archive recording of West Indies Calling from 1943, is used courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. Una Marson's poem Black Burden is used courtesy of Peepal Tree Press and the BBC Caribbean Service archive material was provided by the Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies. (Photo: Sir Trevor McDonald and Una Marson. Credit: BBC)

To mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC World Service, we trace the development of the Caribbean Service. Its beginnings go back to the early 1940s when the BBC's first black producer, Una Marson was employed. She created Caribbean Voices, which gave future Nobel laureates such as Derek Walcott their first international platform. In 1969, one of the UK's best known newsreaders, Sir Trevor McDonald, left Trinidad to join the BBC Caribbean Service as a producer. He reflects on its legacy. Produced and presented by Josephine McDermott. Archive recording of West Indies Calling from 1943, is used courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. Una Marson's poem Black Burden is used courtesy of Peepal Tree Press and the BBC Caribbean Service archive material was provided by the Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies. (Photo: Sir Trevor McDonald and Una Marson. Credit: BBC)

Ingrid Persaud's  debut novel Love After Love blew me away the first time I read it in 2020 shortly after it was published.  Re-reading it recently for this podcast has made me love it even more.The title of this novel is from the Derek Walcott poem Love After Love - find it here https://allpoetry.com/love-after-love it is also so moving and thought provoking.Anita and I talk about the importance of loving reading, of escaping via the pages of a novel.  Love After Love, set in Trinidad and following a very unconventional family is a brilliant book in which to escape the winter blues and find yourself in the Caribbean.Among other things there are themes of secrets, unconventional families, different types of love, migration, belonging, self harm, homophobia and expectations.  

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 series one of Modern-ish Poets and all our other Close Readings series, sign up here:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsSeries 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 WalcottIan SansomNicholas EverettStephen BrookBlake Morrison Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Va a llegar el momento en que, lleno de alegría, te vas a saludar a vos mismo al llegar a tu propia puerta, frente a tu propio espejo, y uno va a sonreírle al otro que le da la bienvenida y le va a decir: Vení. Sentate a comer. Vas a querer de nuevo a ese desconocido que eras vos. Servile vino. Dale pan. Devolvele tu corazón a tu corazón, al desconocido que te quiso toda la vida, al que ignoraste confundiéndolo con otro, que te conoce de memoria. Bajá las cartas de amor de la biblioteca, las fotos, las notas desesperadas, arrancate tu imagen del espejo. Sentate. Hacete un festín con tu vida.

Chaya Milchtein (she/her/hers) is a multi-passionate, fat femme who believes in taking up space and living a big, adventurous life. She's offering car advice and hot travel tips (including bathroom stuff!) for fat folks, and shares some of her best and worst travel experiences.Chaya is an automotive educator, journalist, and speaker focused on empowering & educating car owners and inspiring fat folks to travel. Chaya's work has been featured on CarTalk, AARP, the Chicago Tribune, and in addition to her monthly column in Salon, "A Fatty's Guide to Traveling and Eating the World," she's written for AAA's Via Magazine, Real Simple, Parents Magazine, and others.You can find more about her work on her website, Tiktok, Instagram, YouTube, and other social platforms.The poem Sophia reads is Love After Love by Derek Walcott.All things Fat Joy are on Instagram, the website, on Patreon .And please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a comment for the Fat Joy podcast, too!

Anyone on a quest for more inner peace has no doubt heard about the benefits of meditation. But even though the practice is simple -- just sit and breathe -- it can be so hard to do. Our thoughts race. We feel restless. Sometimes looking inside our minds can be uncomfortable and even scary.Masako Kozawa, a photographer and writer who describes herself as "a teacher and student of meditation," has been there. She came to meditation at one of her lowest points in life, desperate for anything to make her feel better.For her, the practice has been an unprecedented game changer, reshaping the way she feels about herself, her thoughts and her life.If you've ever wondered if meditation is worth the effort, Masako's story will convince you!Masako's podcast is all about the life-changing effects of meditation. Check out "Why Not Meditate?" anywhere you get your podcasts. And connect with Masako on Instagram @masakozawa_photography.The excellent app we mention in this episode is Insight Timer. The poem I mention is Derek Walcott's Love After Love.Have a peaceful week!

What the hell is up? Welcome to Season Three: ROOTED. In today's episode, I introduce this idea of ROOTED and share how I'm staying rooted, while not having any geographic roots at all. Stay Rooted with me? Featured poem, Love after Love by Derek Walcott: https://allpoetry.com/love-after-love Follow my podgram: @whatthehellisuppod Featured Music: https://spyglass.bandcamp.com/ @spyglass.music Pod Logo: @caltheipadkid Intro & Transition Music: @afterspacemusic

Join me today for a special conversation, inspired by the passing of Queen Elizabeth, about the archetype of sovereignty.  We discern how this powerful center of gravity differs from the concepts of "celebrity" or even "royalty." Accompanying our exploration are moving and provocative passages from beloved storyteller Philip Pullman and poet Derek Walcott.  Musical selection: Inner Spaces by Gavin Luke --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lori-green2/support

The mighty Mississippi River has punched a hole in Plaquemine Parish's east bank, and it is only continuing to grow. WWNO's Halle Parker tells us why the state, coastal advocates and the U.S. Army Corps are debating how to manage its future.  Crescent City Stage, a new theater company that formed in New Orleans in the middle of a global pandemic, is finally able to bring performances to local audiences. Co-founder Michael Newcomer tells us about the company's inaugural season and its opening production of Derek Walcott's Pantomime.A production of Sweet Potato Queens, an upbeat musical that tells the story of friends learning to grab life by the sequins, feathers, and tiaras, is opening in Westwego, Louisiana this Friday. Author of the Sweet Potato Queens book series Jill Conner Browne, tells us more about adapting her stories for the stage.  Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubry Procell, and Thomas Walsh.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good News: Bus stops in the UK city of Birmingham have beet transformed into stained glass art galleries, Link HERE. The Good Word: A stunningly beautiful poem from Nobel Prize winner Sir Derek Walcott. Good To Know: A genuinely startling fact about pineapples! Good News: The UK economy could get a 1.6-billion-pound boost if policies […]

Capítulo 018: On this episode of Ocu-Pasión we are joined by Broadway veteran, university instructor, theatre facilitator, and director Michelle Rios. Listen in as we discuss Theatre within social activism, collective creation, and the art of storytelling. Michelle's  credits include the Tony Award nominated Broadway productions of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's The Capeman, The Sound of Music (starringRichard Chamberlain), and Man of La Mancha (starring Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell).  She also performed the coveted role of “Abuela Claudia” opposite Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Lin Manuel Miranda in In the Heights and originated the role of  “Maria Elena” in the opera Missionaries written and directed by the late Elizabeth Swados, which premiered at both La MaMa, ETC. and New York Stage and Film.   A classically trained vocalist, Ms. Rios was also a Metropolitan Opera Mid Atlantic Semi-finalist, and has collaborated with artists on theatrical, classical, and contemporary new works.  She was a guest artist in Spoleto Music Festivals in both Italy and Charleston, SC, where she performed the world premiere of Magic & Transformation, a chamber orchestral piece with lyrics by the late Lou Reed and music by contemporary composer Peter Gordon.  Other guest artist concert appearances include: The Washington Opera, The National Symphony, The Greenville Symphony, The Arlington Symphony, The Pan American Symphony Orchestra, The Core Ensemble, Opera Maxlrain (Germany), The “In” Series, etc.  Ms. Rios has performed and collaborated with such luminaries as Paul Simon, Lin Manuel Miranda, Marc Anthony, Ruben Blades, Uzo Aduba, Lila Downs, and Academy Award nominees Ed Harris, Mare Winningham, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, to name a few.  She performed the role of "Signora Nacarelli" in the World Premiere of the first chamber production of The Light in the Piazza by Tony Award winning composer Adam Guettel.   She also originated the role of “Lupe” in the World Premiere of Tony Award nominees Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson's Giant directed by award winning Broadway and West End director and choreographer Jonathan Butterell ("Everybody's Talking About Jamie").  She performed alongside Grammy Award winning recording artist Lila Downs as “Mama Elena” in the Sundance Theatre Lab workshop presentation of Like Water for Chocolate with music and lyrics by Lila Downs and a book by Pulitzer Prize Award winning playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes.  Ms. Rios received a 2018 Helen Hayes Award nomination for her performance as "Abuela Claudia" in the U.S. Spanish premiere of In the Heights  directed and choreographed by Luis Salgado with original Spanish lyrics by Lin Manuel Miranda.  You may catch Ms. Rios as “Flora” opposite Academy Award nominee Ed Harris in the feature film Frontera (on Netflix).  She appears as "Mrs. Lopez" in the first season of Schmigadoon! a musical comedy series starring SNL's Cecily Strong and  directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Addams Family, Men in Black, etc.).  Schmigadoon! is currently streaming on Apple TV+ .   Ms. Rios received an MFA in Theatre Practice from the University of Alberta (Canada).Follow Michelle :  Website: www.mmrios.comDelsy Sandoval is the Executive Producer of Ocu-Pasión. If you want to support the podcast, please rate and review the show here. You can also get in touch with Delsy at www.ocupasionpodcast.comFollow Ocu-Pasión on Instagram: @ocupasionpodcast www.instagram.com/ocupasionpodcastJoin the Ocu-Pasión Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/5160180850660613/

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Born on the island of Saint Lucia, a former British colony in the West Indies, poet and playwright Derek Walcott was trained as a painter but turned to writing as a young man. He published his first poem in the local newspaper at the age of 14. Five years later, he borrowed $200 to print his first collection, 25 Poems, which he distributed on street corners. Walcott's major breakthrough came with the collection In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 (1962), a book which celebrates the Caribbean and its history as well as investigates the scars of colonialism. Throughout a long and distinguished career, Walcott returned to those same themes of language, power, and place. His later collections include Tiepolo's Hound (2000), The Prodigal (2004), Selected Poems (2007), White Egrets (2010), and Morning, Paramin (2016). In 1992, Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel committee described his work as “a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment.”Since the 1950s Walcott divided his time between Boston, New York, and Saint Lucia. His work resonates with Western canon and Island influences, shifting between Caribbean patois and English, and often addressing his English and West Indian ancestry. Many readers and critics point to Omeros (1990), an epic poem reimagining the Trojan War as a Caribbean fishermen's fight, as Walcott's major achievement. Walcott was also a renowned playwright. In 1971 he won an Obie Award for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, which the New Yorker described as “a poem in dramatic form.” Walcott's plays generally treat aspects of the West Indian experience, often dealing with the socio-political and epistemological implications of post-colonialism and drawing upon various genres such as the fable, allegory, folk, and morality play. With his twin brother, he cofounded the Trinidad Theater Workshop in 1950; in 1981, while teaching at Boston University, he founded the Boston Playwrights' Theatre. He also taught at Columbia University, Yale University, Rutgers University, and Essex University in England.In addition to his Nobel Prize, Walcott's honors included a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and, in 1988, the Queen's Medal for Poetry. He was an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 2017.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/derek-walcott. For more information about Derek Walcott:“Sea Grapes”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57111/sea-grapes“Derek Walcott, The Art of Poetry No. 37”: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2719/the-art-of-poetry-no-37-derek-walcott“Derek Walcott Reads His Poem Sea Grapes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlbD_Gawis“Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott”: https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/poetry/kwame-dawes-reads-derek-walcottPhoto by Jorge Mejía Peralta: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mejiaperalta/6883969411/

We're wrapping up season one by reuniting Brittany and Kyle with their very first podcast guest, Robert Theissen, to unpack and discuss the poem 'Love After Love' by Poet and Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott. Join our friends for a conversation about the journey to self-love and acceptance, what it has looked like to embrace one's whole self at every stage of the journey. If you've enjoyed this podcast, follow us on IG @openinglifepodcast and join us in mid-March for season 2.

How do you show up in the world? How do you bring your true, genuine presence into everything that you do? The answer may not come naturally to you, but we can figure it out together. In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda talks about the true purpose of the ego and how the ego is connected to your emotions and how you show up in the world. You'll also learn the 9 tremendous effects you have on others by being present with them.  “The job isn't to cut the ego out and to get rid of it and to banish it into the ethers and for it to never be seen again, that is its worst fear.” - Yedda With so much going on in the world, many of us don't even know who we are anymore, but this work helps you come back to your true self. Yedda shares an exercise you can use to work with your ego to master your mind, your behaviors, and your aspirations. You'll also gain insight into how to start integrating and inviting all parts of yourself back together in your mind and why that's so powerful. “When you can instill calmness and you can walk in a room and create psychological safety, and your ego is helping to do that, you become unlimited in your possibilities.” - Yedda Sit in silence. Invite your ego in for a conversation. Learn from them. Work with them. Impact the world.   Resources: Love After Love by Derek Walcott: www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/21/love-after-love-derek-walcott  Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course   About Yedda: As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame. Yedda's ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life's work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.” Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.   Connect with Yedda: Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil   Do you have feedback, questions, or comments? Leave a review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shut-up-and-sit/id1561078547

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Joe Pesci's death scene in Goodfellas– Freud's book Totem and Taboo– Other Intractable Problems– Cosmopolitan Brooklyn Sex Novelist Brian Platzer– Kant's book Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime– Tim Parks' essay “Why Readers Disagree”– Jonathan Franzen's book The Corrections– The last sentence of The Origin of Species– The Death-Makes-Life-Worth-Living Delusion– The question psychiatry residents hate most– Sherlock Holmes on Copernicus– Poe on composition– Flames, old and new– Yeats' poem “After Long Silence”– Wyatt's poem “Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind”– Derek Walcott's poem “Sixty Years After”Please rate, review, and subscribe! Or just recommend the show to a friend!Send questions, comments, and suggestions to sleerickets@gmail.com. Music by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith