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Pat Ismond

Derek Walcott’s Nobel Works

By Skye Hernandez, Jeremy Taylor, Raoul Pantin and Pat Ismond | Issue 5 (Spring 1993) 
In a special tribute to the 1992 Nobel laureate for literature, Jeremy Taylor, Raoul Pantin, Pat Ismond, and Skye Hernandez look back at Derek Walcott's career
Walcott in his beloved St Lucia. Photograph by Bruce Paddington

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