51-487: Another Life may refer to: Books [ edit ] Another Life (poem) , a 1973 poetry collection by Derek Walcott Another Life (novel) , a 1975 novella by Yuri Trifonov Another Life: A Memoir of Other People , a 1999 memoir by Michael Korda Film and television [ edit ] Another Life (1981 TV series) , an American television soap opera that ran from 1981 to 1984 Another Life (2001 film) ,
102-752: A New York Times book review of Walcott's Selected Poems . While he praised Walcott's writing in Sea Grapes and The Arkansas Testament , Logan had mostly negative things to say about Walcott's poetry, calling Omeros "clumsy" and Another Life "pretentious". Logan concluded with: "No living poet has written verse more delicately rendered or distinguished than Walcott, though few individual poems seem destined to be remembered." Most reviews of Walcott's work are more positive. For instance, in The New Yorker review of The Poetry of Derek Walcott , Adam Kirsch had high praise for Walcott's oeuvre, describing his style in
153-690: A 2001 British film written and directed by Philip Goodhew "Another Life" ( The Twilight Zone ) , an episode of the 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone Another Life (2013 film) , a 2013 French film directed by Emmanuel Mouret Another Life (2019 TV series) , a science fiction series on Netflix Music [ edit ] Albums [ edit ] Another Life (Emphatic album) , 2013 Another Life , album by James Maddock , 2013 Another Life (Mark Stoermer album) , 2011 Another Life (Amnesia Scanner album) , 2018 Another Life (Big Time Rush album) , 2023 Songs [ edit ] "Another Life" (Afrojack and David Guetta song) ,
204-546: A 2017 song by Afrojack and David Guetta "Another Life" (The Collective song) , a 2013 song by The Collective "Another Life" (Ingrid Michaelson song) from It Doesn't Have to Make Sense , 2016 "Another Life" (Motionless in White song) from Disguise , 2019 "Another Life", a 1983 single by Kano "Another Life", a 1981 song by Iron Maiden from the album Killers (Iron Maiden album) See also [ edit ] In Another Life (disambiguation) Another Live ,
255-728: A Green Night: Poems 1948–1960 (1962) attracted international attention. His play Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970) was produced on NBC-TV in the United States the year it was published. Makak is the protagonist in this play; and "Makak"s condition represents the condition of the colonized natives under the oppressive forces of the powerful colonizers". In 1971 it was produced by the Negro Ensemble Company off-Broadway in New York City; it won an Obie Award that year for "Best Foreign Play". The following year, Walcott won an OBE from
306-616: A leading candidate, was elected to the post. Within days, The Daily Telegraph reported that she had alerted journalists to the harassment cases. Under severe media and academic pressure, Padel resigned. Padel was the first woman to be elected to the Oxford post, and some journalists attributed the criticism of her to misogyny and a gender war at Oxford. They said that a male poet would not have been so criticized, as she had reported published information, not rumour. Numerous respected poets, including Seamus Heaney and Al Alvarez , published
357-589: A letter of support for Walcott in The Times Literary Supplement , and criticized the press furore. Other commentators suggested that both poets were casualties of the media interest in an internal university affair because the story "had everything, from sex claims to allegations of character assassination". Simon Armitage and other poets expressed regret at Padel's resignation. Walcott died at his home in Cap Estate, St. Lucia, on 17 March 2017. He
408-493: A live album by the pop rock band Utopia (1975) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Another Life . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Another_Life&oldid=1221296108 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
459-407: A non-existent past, then time passes us by." Walcott's epic book-length poem Omeros was published in 1990 to critical acclaim. The poem very loosely echoes and references Homer and some of his major characters from The Iliad . Some of the poem's major characters include the island fishermen Achille and Hector, the retired English officer Major Plunkett and his wife Maud, the housemaid Helen,
510-658: A pendant from the riband of the order from the left breast. When worn in Saint Lucia the Order takes precedence over all other decorations except the Victoria Cross and the George Cross . Knights or Dames Grand Cross are entitled to the style "His Excellency" or "Her Excellency", the prefix "Sir" (for knights) or "Dame" to their first names and use the post-nominal "GCSL". Only those persons appointed governor-general shall be awarded
561-463: A poem is coming on... you do make a retreat, a withdrawal into some kind of silence that cuts out everything around you. What you're taking on is really not a renewal of your identity but actually a renewal of your anonymity." Walcott said that his writing was influenced by the work of the American poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop , who were also friends. He published more than twenty plays,
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#1733106854863612-404: A powerful elation at having the privilege of writing about places and people for the first time and, simultaneously, having behind them the tradition of knowing how well it can be done—by a Defoe , a Dickens , a Richardson . Walcott identified as "absolutely a Caribbean writer", a pioneer, helping to make sense of the legacy of deep colonial damage. In such poems as "The Castaway" (1965) and in
663-483: A response printed in the newspaper. By 19, Walcott had self-published his first two collections with the aid of his mother, who paid for the printing: 25 Poems (1948) and Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (1949). He sold copies to his friends and covered the costs. He later commented: I went to my mother and said, "I'd like to publish a book of poems, and I think it's going to cost me two hundred dollars." She
714-693: A scholarship to study at the University College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica . After graduation, Walcott moved to Trinidad in 1953, where he became a critic, teacher and journalist. He founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959 and remained active with its board of directors. Exploring the Caribbean and its history in a colonialist and post-colonialist context, his collection In
765-448: A second time to Margaret Maillard in 1962, who worked as an almoner in a hospital. Together they had two daughters, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and Anna Walcott-Hardy, before divorcing in 1976. In 1976, Walcott married for a third time, to actress Norline Metivier; they divorced in 1993. His companion until his death was Sigrid Nama, a former art gallery owner. Walcott was also known for his passion for travelling to countries around
816-427: A settlement. In 2009, Walcott was a leading candidate for the position of Oxford Professor of Poetry . He withdrew his candidacy after reports of the accusations against him of sexual harassment from 1981 and 1996. When the media learned that pages from an American book on the topic were sent anonymously to a number of Oxford academics, this aroused their interest in the university's decisions. Ruth Padel , also
867-532: A slave ship that is headed for the Americas; also, in Book Five of the poem, Walcott narrates some of his travel experiences in a variety of cities around the world, including Lisbon , London, Dublin , Rome, and Toronto. Composed in a variation on terza rima , the work explores the themes that run throughout Walcott's oeuvre: the beauty of the islands, the colonial burden, the fragmentation of Caribbean identity, and
918-486: A teacher, loved the arts and often recited poetry around the house. His father was a civil servant and a talented painter. He died when Walcott and his brother were one year old, and were left to be raised by their mother. Walcott was brought up in Methodist schools. His mother, who was a teacher at a Methodist elementary school, provided her children with an environment where their talents could be nurtured. Walcott's family
969-528: A writer. In the poem "Midsummer" (1984), he wrote: Forty years gone, in my island childhood, I felt that the gift of poetry had made me one of the chosen, that all experience was kindling to the fire of the Muse. At 14, Walcott published his first poem, a Miltonic , religious poem, in the newspaper The Voice of St Lucia . An English Catholic priest condemned the Methodist-inspired poem as blasphemous in
1020-567: Is an order of chivalry established in 1986 by Elizabeth II , Queen of Saint Lucia . The order is bestowed by the governor-general on behalf of the sovereign . The governor-general has the right to exercise all powers and authorities of the sovereign in respect of the Order. In February 2016, for the first time in the order's history, the Queen approved the awarding of the grades of Knight and Dame. The Order of Saint Lucia comprises seven classes. In decreasing order of seniority, these are: While
1071-558: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature . His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning
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#17331068548631122-403: Is melting into what it has seen… the 'I' not being important. That is the ecstasy... Ultimately, it's what Yeats says: 'Such a sweetness flows into the breast that we laugh at everything and everything we look upon is blessed.' That's always there. It's a benediction, a transference. It's gratitude, really. The more of that a poet keeps, the more genuine his nature." He also notes: "if one thinks
1173-501: Is only entitled to wear the Star with and the badge of the order suspended from the riband of the order and worn round the neck. The Cross of the order is awarded in gold and is worn from the riband of the order round the neck. The Medal of Merit and the Medal of Honour can be awarded in gold or silver. The Les Pitons Medal can be awarded in gold, silver or bronze. All of the medals are worn as
1224-505: Is shown to have much information but truly knows nothing. Every line Mi-Jean recites is rote knowledge gained from the coloniser; he is unable to synthesize it or apply it to his life as a colonised person. Walcott notes of growing up in West Indian culture: What we were deprived of was also our privilege. There was a great joy in making a world that so far, up to then, had been undefined... My generation of West Indian writers has felt such
1275-514: Is the volume of Walcott's that usually receives the most critical praise, Kirsch believes Midsummer to be his best book. In 2013 Dutch filmmaker Ida Does released Poetry is an Island , a feature documentary film about Walcott's life and the ever-present influence of his birthplace of St Lucia . In 1954 Walcott married Fay Moston, a secretary, and they had a son, the St. Lucian painter Peter Walcott. The marriage ended in divorce in 1959. Walcott married
1326-698: The Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015. Walcott was born and raised in Castries , Saint Lucia , in the West Indies , the son of Alix (Maarlin) and Warwick Walcott. He had a twin brother, the playwright Roderick Walcott , and a sister, Pamela Walcott. His family is of English, Dutch and African descent, reflecting the complex colonial history of the island that he explores in his poetry. His mother,
1377-672: The University of Essex . As a part of St Lucia's Independence Day celebrations, in February 2016, he became one of the first knights of the Order of Saint Lucia . Methodism and spirituality have played a significant role from the beginning in Walcott's work. He commented: "I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation , a religious vocation." Describing his writing process, he wrote: "the body feels it
1428-622: The British government for his work. He was hired as a teacher by Boston University in the United States, where he founded the Boston Playwrights' Theatre in 1981. That year he also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in the United States. Walcott taught literature and writing at Boston University for more than two decades, publishing new books of poetry and plays on a regular basis. Walcott retired from his position at Boston University in 2007. He became friends with other poets, including
1479-584: The English language like tidal waves, coagulating into an archipelago of poems without which the map of modern literature would effectively match wallpaper. He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language." Walcott noted that he, Brodsky, and the Irish poet Seamus Heaney , who all taught in the United States, were a band of poets "outside the American experience". The poetry critic William Logan critiqued Walcott's work in
1530-522: The Knight or Dame Grand Cross. Knight/Dame Commanders are entitled to the prefix "Sir" (for knights) or "Dame" to their first names and use the post-nominal "KCSL" or "DCSL". Saint Lucia Crosses are entitled to the style "The Honourable" and use the post-nominal "SLC". Other ranks use the post-nominals "SLMH" (Saint Lucia Medal of Honour), "SLMM" (Saint Lucia Medal of Merit), "SLPM" (Les Pitons Medal) and "NSC" (National Service Cross). The rank of Grand Cross
1581-511: The Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain , a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen's Medal for Poetry , the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature , the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and
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1632-461: The Order of Saint Lucia or the Saint Lucia Cross, the riband is a width of two inches; and when worn with the insignia of the other grades of the order, the riband is the width of one and a half inches. The Grand Cross is of gold and the recipient shall is invested with a Star, and a Collar to which is affixed the badge of the order. Upon retirement from office of governor-general, the recipient
1683-725: The Russian expatriate Joseph Brodsky , who lived and worked in the U.S. after being exiled in the 1970s, and the Irishman Seamus Heaney , who also taught in Boston. Walcott's epic poem Omeros (1990), which loosely echoes and refers to characters from the Iliad , has been critically praised as his "major achievement." The book received praise from publications such as The Washington Post and The New York Times Book Review , which chose Omeros as one of its "Best Books of 1990". Walcott
1734-526: The T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature . Derek Walcott held the Elias Ghanem Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2007. In 2008, Walcott gave the first Cola Debrot Lectures In 2009, Walcott began a three-year distinguished scholar-in-residence position at the University of Alberta . In 2010, he became Professor of Poetry at
1785-421: The West Indies as a colonized space. He discusses the problems for an artist of a region with little in the way of truly Indigenous forms, and with little national or nationalist identity. He states: "We are all strangers here... Our bodies think in one language and move in another". The epistemological effects of colonization inform plays such as Ti-Jean and his Brothers . Mi-Jean, one of the eponymous brothers,
1836-457: The approval of the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister. For Knight/Dame Commanders, appointments may only be awarded to no more than three persons every two years, and the number of living Knights/Dames shall not exceed 20 at any one time. The riband of the order is composed of vertical stripes of the colours blue, gold, black, and white. When worn with the insignia of the Grand Cross of
1887-404: The blind man Seven Seas (who symbolically represents Homer), and the author himself. Although the main narrative of the poem takes place on the island of St. Lucia, where Walcott was born and raised, Walcott also includes scenes from Brookline, Massachusetts (where Walcott was living and teaching at the time of the poem's composition), and the character Achille imagines a voyage from Africa onto
1938-468: The commissioner of police, and three persons representative of the general public appointed by the governor-general of whom two shall are appointed on the advice of the prime minister and one on the advice of the leader of the opposition. The committee secretary is appointed by the governor-general. The Order of Saint Lucia may only be awarded to citizens of Saint Lucia. Honorary awards may be made to persons other than citizens of Saint Lucia and are made with
1989-624: The following manner: By combining the grammar of vision with the freedom of metaphor, Walcott produces a beautiful style that is also a philosophical style. People perceive the world on dual channels, Walcott's verse suggests, through the senses and through the mind, and each is constantly seeping into the other. The result is a state of perpetual magical thinking, a kind of Alice in Wonderland world where concepts have bodies and landscapes are always liable to get up and start talking. Kirsch calls Another Life Walcott's "first major peak" and analyzes
2040-567: The majority of which have been produced by the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and have also been widely staged elsewhere. Many of them address, either directly or indirectly, the liminal status of the West Indies in the post-colonial period. Through poetry he also explores the paradoxes and complexities of this legacy. In his 1970 essay "What the Twilight Says: An Overture", discussing art and theatre in his native region (from Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays ), Walcott reflects on
2091-556: The monarch is sovereign of the order and the governor-general is chancellor, there is also established an awards committee to decide on eligible members of the order. Members of the committee include a chairman appointed by the governor-general after consultation with the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, the chairman of the Public Service Commission, the chairman of the Teaching Service Commission,
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2142-478: The painterly qualities of Walcott's imagery from his earliest work through to later books such as Tiepolo's Hound . Kirsch also explores the post-colonial politics in Walcott's work, calling him "the postcolonial writer par excellence". Kirsch calls the early poem "A Far Cry from Africa" a turning point in Walcott's development as a poet. Like Logan, Kirsch is critical of Omeros , which he believes Walcott fails to successfully sustain over its entirety. Although Omeros
2193-499: The play Pantomime (1978), he uses the metaphors of shipwreck and Crusoe to describe the culture and what is required of artists after colonialism and slavery: both the freedom and the challenge to begin again, salvage the best of other cultures and make something new. These images recur in later work as well. He writes: "If we continue to sulk and say, Look at what the slave-owner did, and so forth, we will never mature. While we sit moping or writing morose poems and novels that glorify
2244-832: The public as Walcott House in January 2016. In 2019, Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, began awarding the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen published in the previous calendar year. In January 2020, the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St. Lucia announced that Walcott's books on Caribbean Literature and poetry have been donated to its Library. Order of Saint Lucia The Order of Saint Lucia
2295-557: The role of the poet in a post-colonial world. In this epic, Walcott speaks in favour of unique Caribbean cultures and traditions to challenge the modernity that existed as a consequence of colonialism. Walcott's work has received praise from major poets including Robert Graves , who wrote that Walcott "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries", and Joseph Brodsky , who praised Walcott's work, writing: "For almost forty years his throbbing and relentless lines kept arriving in
2346-521: The world. He split his time between New York, Boston, and St. Lucia, and incorporated the influences of different locations into his pieces of work. In 1982, a Harvard sophomore accused Walcott of sexual harassment in September 1981. She alleged that after she refused a sexual advance from him, she was given the only C in the class. In 1996 a student at Boston University sued Walcott for sexual harassment and "offensive sexual physical contact". The two reached
2397-803: Was 87. He was given a state funeral on Saturday, 25 March, with a service at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries and burial at Morne Fortune . In 1993, a public square and park located in central Castries, Saint Lucia, was named Derek Walcott Square . A documentary film, Poetry Is an Island: Derek Walcott , by filmmaker Ida Does , was produced to honour him and his legacy in 2013. The Saint Lucia National Trust acquired Walcott's childhood home at 17 Chaussée Road, Castries, in November 2015, renovating it before opening it to
2448-705: Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, the second Caribbean writer to receive the honour after Saint-John Perse , who was born in Guadeloupe , received the award in 1960. The Nobel committee described Walcott's work as "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment". He won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004. His later poetry collections include Tiepolo's Hound (2000), illustrated with copies of his watercolours; The Prodigal (2004), and White Egrets (2010), which received
2499-494: Was just a seamstress and a schoolteacher, and I remember her being very upset because she wanted to do it. Somehow she got it—a lot of money for a woman to have found on her salary. She gave it to me, and I sent off to Trinidad and had the book printed. When the books came back I would sell them to friends. I made the money back. The influential Bajan poet Frank Collymore critically supported Walcott's early work. After attending high school at Saint Mary's College , he received
2550-475: Was later exhibited at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City, along with the art of other writers, in a 2007 exhibition named The Writer's Brush: Paintings and Drawing by Writers . He studied as a writer, becoming "an elated, exuberant poet madly in love with English" and strongly influenced by modernist poets such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound . Walcott had an early sense of a vocation as
2601-411: Was part of a minority Methodist community, who felt overshadowed by the dominant Catholic culture of the island established during French colonial rule. As a young man Walcott trained as a painter, mentored by Harold Simmons , whose life as a professional artist provided an inspiring example for him. Walcott greatly admired Cézanne and Giorgione and sought to learn from them. Walcott's painting
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