Comments on: Walcott on Omeros

By: Geoffrey Philp

Geoffrey Philp — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:56:15 +0000

Most definitely. It is that sense of place in poems that I have carried with me to South Florida.
Something that i learned from Walcott and Braithwaite.

By: Rustum

Rustum — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:35:19 +0000

Hi Geoffrey

glad to see you dropping by. I have the same response to landscape here; but Walcott, of course, also embodies those moments in his poetry, so that the reader is moved by it.

As someone from the Caribbean, do you feel Walcott’s poetry as an accurate reflection of the place – I mean, in his poetry, do you see what you see around you?

By: Geoffrey Philp

Geoffrey Philp — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:30:14 +0000

Rustum, first give thanks for the link & I, too, am always amazed when I am in the Caribbean “how sometimes I’ll come around a corner and catch my breath at the landscape”

1Love,
Geoffrey

By: swimmingup

swimmingup — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:41:41 +0000

I liked what Walcott said about living in St Lucia – how sometimes he’ll come around a corner and catch his breath at the landscape, how that informs his writing, a sense of place.