This content originally appeared on St. Lucia Times.
Explorations of Saint Lucian identity in Derek Walcott’s poetry are steeped in colonial tension. His rise as a poet unfolded alongside the island’s own post-independence evolution, which took shape against a technologically advancing world. That convergence has helped define our present reality, where Walcott’s success continues to inspire cultural stakeholders to carve out space for local writers, who, no longer bound by physical limitations, are seizing the access technology has provided to publish their own work.
