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Season 1 • Episode 278: Caribbean Nights: Poetry • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 278: Caribbean Nights: Poetry

June 14, 1986

The celebrated West Indian poet Derek Walcott joins Linton Kwesi Johnson and Guyanese prodigy Fred D'Aguiar to debate the range and impact of Caribbean poetry. With filmed readings from C.L.R. James, Edward Braithwaite, Michael Smith and Mervyn Morris.

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