Derek Walcott is a Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet and playwright. Walcott has also worked as a teacher of poetry and drama and gives lectures and readings throughout the world. His debut work, 25 poems was published in 1948. Walcott has written extensively and his works have covered a variety of subjects.

Derek Walcott's work has consisted of a large number of poems and plays. In a Green Night: Poems from 1962 wasWalcott's breakthrough. Walcott founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959 and was still on the board of directors 50 years later. Since the 1970s, Walcott has worked largely in academic circles, most notably at Harvard and Boston University. In 1992, Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

• 25 Poems, 1948

• Epitaph for the Young: Xll Cantos, 1949

• Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes, 1950

• Poems, 1951

• Harry Dernier: A Play for Radio Production, 1951

• Wine of the Country, 1953

• The Sea at Dauphin: A Play in One Act, 1954

• Ione, 1957

• Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama, 1958

• Ti-Jean and His Brothers, 1958

• In a Green Night: Poems 1948-60, 1962

• Selected Poems, 1964

• The Castaway and Other Poems, 1965

• Malcochon: or, Six in the Rain, 1966

• Dream on Monkey Mountain, 1967

• The Gulf and Other Poems, 1969

• In a Fine Castle, 1970

• Another Life, 1973

• The Joker of Seville, 1974

• The Charlatan, 1974

• Sea Grapes, 1976

• O Babylon!, 1976

• Remembrance, 1977

• Pantomime, 1978

• The Star-Apple Kingdom, 1979

• Omeros, 1990