anyone read this book.ive seen it reviewd i quite a few places, and people are saying its a masterpiece but i dont even know anyone whos read it which is a shame because derek walcott is one of the greatest caribbean writers of all time and has even won a nobel prize for literature but no one has heard of him.

heres a short biography for anyone who hasnt heard of him.

"The major West Indian poet and dramatist writing in English today. Derek Walcott has lived most of his life in Trinidad. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. Walcott has studied the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture, the long way from slavery to independence, and his own role as a nomad between cultures. His poems are characterized by allusions to the English poetic tradition and a symbolic imagination that is at once personal and Caribbean."

a short extract from omeros.

"I sang our wide country, the Caribbean Sea
who hated shoes, whose soles were as cracked as a stone,
who was gentle with ropes, who had one suit alone,

whom no man dared insult and who insulted no one,
whose grin was a white breaker cresting, but whose frown
was a growing thunderhead..."
(from Omeros)