The bounty

It is a book of many complex moods and ideas as the title poems establishes from the outset, being not ontly an elegy, for the poet´s mother, but also something of a literary self-examination and canticle of praise for natural abundance. Those which follow look at the poet´s experience of Europe, Africa and his native Caribbean, and they are marked by his characteristic ability to meet the world´s multifariousness with a verse that is supple in its rhythms and syntax and that proliferates with an inexhaustible gift for metaphor. A tribute to Derek Walcott´s late friend and fellow Nobel Prize winner, the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, ends the book.