The Bounty

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. x, 78. Purple cloth boards, lettered in butter-yellow to spine. Dust jacket illustration by the author, with blurbs by Seamus Heaney and Oliver Taplin to rear. Published simultaneously with the softback issue. Sections of this book previously appeared in The New Yorker.

The title poem, a long elegy to Walcott's mother, is succeeded by a haunting series of poems about the island of St. Lucia, the poet's birthplace. His first collection of poetry to be published after he was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize Nobel Prize for Literature. "[T]here is no more serious, or more sonorous, writer living." –Pico Iyer, TIME