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Epic poem reimagining Homer's Iliad and Odyssey through Caribbean fishermen on Saint Lucia.

Autobiographical poem about growing up in Saint Lucia, his artistic awakening, and Caribbean history.

Comprehensive collection of Walcott's poetry spanning four decades of Caribbean and world literature.

Trilogy of poetry (Rights of Passage, Masks, Islands) tracing African diaspora experience across Middle Passage.

Long surrealist poem about returning to Martinique, coining 'négritude' and celebrating Black identity.

Poetry collection that earned Goodison the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Grounded in Caribbean landscape, female experience, and Jamaican vernacular, these poems celebrate womanhood across generations.

First volume of The Arrivants trilogy, tracing the Atlantic journey of enslaved Africans and their descendants through jazz, blues, and Caribbean rhythms. Brathwaite invented the concept of 'nation language.'

Second volume of The Arrivants trilogy, set in Africa — following the poet's search for roots in Ghana. Draws on Akan ritual, drum rhythms, and oral tradition.

Third and final volume of The Arrivants trilogy, returning to the Caribbean to interrogate what remains after the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism — and what can be built.

The complete poems of Aimé Césaire, including Notebook of a Return to the Native Land and the later lyrics. Césaire co-founded Negritude and served as mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years.