Derek Walcott, this year's poet, is going to take us far away to the West Indies,
with his poem Omeros, but also on an epic journey through world poetry.
Let us first listen to him reading Book One of Omeros:
On the Open Street Map below the red dot is St Lucia and the green one is Toulouse, to help you place Walcott's world.
You can learn more about Derek Walcott in this interview by a young Melvyn Bragg (one of Britain's most brilliant cultural interviewers, still going strong on Radio 4 with his In our Time program).
You might also enjoy this short video where Walcott discusses painting and poetry. His comments on light are most .... illuminating (!?)
In the Poetry Exchange, there's a lovely reading of another Walcott poem, "For Sigrid" with a nice discussion after.
And finally, you might have fun checking out Saint M, Walcott's grandson, who's trying to break out as a rap singer.