Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to other countries but has always, not least in his efforts to create an indigenous drama, felt himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic and European elements. In 1959, he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop which produced many of his early plays. At the age of 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, but his breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962). Mary’s College in his native island and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where he has worked as theatre and art critic. His mother ran the town’s Methodist school. His father, a Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek and his twin brother, Roderick, were only a few years old. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the descendants of slaves. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott’s life and work.
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