Derek Walcott's works are in copyright. Permission to reproduce them must be obtained from his publishers.

For a brief biography of the poet, see the Nobel Foundation Web site.

• Walcott, Derek. 25 Poems. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948.
• --.Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos. Bridgetown, Barbados: Barbados Advocate, 1949.
• --.Poems. Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston City Printery, 1953.
• --.In a Green Night: Poems. London: J. Cape, 1962.
• --.Selected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964.
• --.The Castaway. London: J. Cape, 1965.
• --.The Gulf and Other Poems. London: J. Cape, 1969.
• --.Another Life. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1973.
• --.Sea Grapes. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1976.
• --.Selected Verse. London: Heinemann, 1976.
• --.The Star-Apple Kingdom. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1979.
• --.The Fortunate Traveller. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1981.
• --.Midsummer. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1984.
• --.Collected Poems, 1948-1984. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1986.
• --.The Arkansas Testament. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1987.
• --.Omeros. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1990.
• --.Collected Poems. London: Faber, 1990.
• --.Poems, 1965-1980. London: J. Cape), 1992.
• --.Derek Walcott: Selected Poems. London: Longman, 1993.
• --.The Bounty. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1997.
• --.Tiepolo's Hound. New York: Farrar, Straus, 2000.
• --.The Prodigal. New York: Farrar, Straus, 2004.