[NEohioPAL] Cleveland Premier of a new feature documentary about St. Lucian Nobel Laureate, poet, playwright and painter, Derek Walcott at Karamu on Sunday, Aug 17th.

[millie keating via NEohioPAL]

Join us for the Cleveland Premier of "Poetry is an 
Island," 
a beautiful new feature documentary about the life and
work of St. Lucian Nobel Laureate, poet, playwright and painter, 
Derek 
Walcott at 
Karamu House on 
Sunday, August 
17th, 
from 2 to 5 pm. 
 
Walcott was born on a small Caribbean 
island of African, 
English 
and Dutch descent, raised by his single mother 
after his father 
died, self published his first book of poems and 
went on to 
become a world renowned writer reaching the level of Nobel Laureate. 

He is 
regarded as the voice of the people of the Caribbean. In 2004, 
Walcott received a Lifetime Achievement 
Award from the Anisfield-Wolf 

Book Awards, which recognizes writers who 
make important 
contributions to our understanding of racism and human 
diversity.
 

http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2014/07/derek-walcott-
documentary-poetry-is-an-island-to-premiere-at-karamu-house/
 
The program will include live St. Lucian 
Steelpan music and a 
staged excerpt from the Derek 
Walcott play "Dream on Monkey Island," 
which was produced at Karamu to much 
acclaim in 2007. Following 
the 80 minute 
feature documentary about Walcott's work and life in 

St Lucia, audience members will be able to ask 
questions of the 
director of the film, 
Ms. Ida Does, by Skype, from her home in 
The Netherlands.
 
Tickets at the door ($12) 
All proceeds 
going to Karamu House.
 
"Poetry is an Island" 
flyer attached. 
 
Sponsored by the 
the 
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 
presented by 

the 
Cleveland 
Foundation
 
  
More about the 
film:
  
"Derek Walcott, Poetry is an 
island, is a feature documentary film about 
Nobel laureate, poet, playwright, and visual artist, Derek 
Alton Walcott 
(1930). The film depicts 
an intimate portrait of Walcott, as we visit his art 
studio, his childhood home, and his current residence in St. Lucia. It 
also 
includes exclusive archive material 
from the Nobel Prize Festivities in 1992. 

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this 
film is about Walcott’s 
poetry.
 
Derek Walcott grew up in St. 
Lucia–Castries–in a small family. His father 
died when he was very young, and so, Derek, his twin brother 
Roderick, 
and their sister Pamela, were raised by their single mother. Walcott is 
of 
African, English and Dutch descent. He grew up in an artistic ambiance, 

his father being a painter and writer, 
and his mother–a teacher–encouraging 

him from early on to write 
poetry.
 
In Poetry is an island  we 
share Caribbean moments with Walcott as we 
visit some of his favorite places, his studio, and St. Lucia home. 
We travel 
through St. Lucia and encounter childhood friends whose ‘lives became 

poetry’ through Walcott’s work. We discover the anger and frustration that 

the poet holds against the downtime of the arts as he talks to us about the 

meaning of poetry to him personally, and about the significance of art for 

humanity. Family members reveal some of the poet’s life challenges, and 
people who have worked with him speak 
frankly about their experiences 

with Walcott. Poetry is an island 
is an intimate portrait of the man, the 
poet, 
and son of the Caribbean: Derek 
Walcott."
 
www.walcottfilm.com   		 	   		  
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