Description
A searching and richly evocative collection, this work transforms the figure of the castaway into an emblem of Caribbean history, postcolonial displacement, and the difficult work of rebuilding identity after empire. Through vivid island landscapes, bodily frankness, and shifting reflections on language, art, and belonging, the poems move between solitude and cultural inheritance. Drawing on the Crusoe myth while challenging its assumptions, the collection finds beauty and unease in the natural world and in the castaway’s struggle to make meaning from what remains. The result is a landmark meditation on exile, survival, colonialism, and the possibilities of self-definition.
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First Published
1965
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Castaway by Derek Walcott.