Books and Journal special issuesAgenda, 39: 1–3 (Winter 2002–3)
Baugh, , Edward, , Derek Walcott: Memory As Vision: ‘Another Life’ (London: Longman, 1978)
Bloom, , Harold, , ed. Derek Walcott (Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2003)
Bobb, , June, D., Beating A Restless Drum: The Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998)
Breslin, , Paul, , Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Brown, , Stewart, , ed. The Art of Derek Walcott (Bridgend, Glamorgan: Seren Books, 1991)
Burnett, , Paula, , Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000)
Callahan, , Russell, Lance, In The Shadows of Divine Perfection: Derek Walcott's ‘Omeros’ (Fredericton: University of New Brunswick Press, 1999)
Callaloo, 28:1 (Winter 2005)
Fumagalli, , Cristina, Maria, The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001)
Goldstraw, , Irma, E., Derek Walcott: An Annotated Bibliography of His Works (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1984)
Hamner, , Robert, D., Derek Walcott, updated edn (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993)
Hamner, , Robert, D.,Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's ‘Omeros’ (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1997)
Hamner, , Robert, D., ed. Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997)
Ismond, , Patricia, , Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry (Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies Press, 2001)
King, , Bruce, , Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
King, Bruce, Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life (Oxford and NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Pollard, Charles W., New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott and Kaman Brathwaite (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004)
South Atlantic Quarterly, 96:2 (Spring 1997)
Terada, , Rei, , Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992)
Thieme, , John, , Derek Walcott (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999)
Verse, 11:2 (Summer 1994), ‘Derek Walcott Feature’, 93–170
Essays, Reviews, Sections in booksAntoine-Dunne, Jean, ‘Time and Space in their Indissoluble Connection: Towards an Audio-Visual Caribbean Aesthetic’, in The Montage Principle: Eisenstein in New Cultural and Critical Contexts (Critical Studies 21), eds. Jean Antoine-Dunne with Paula Quigley (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005), pp. 125–52
Baugh, Edward, ‘The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History’, Tapia, 20 February 1977, pp. 6–7; 27 February 1977, pp. 6–7, 11
Brathwaite, Edward [Kamau], ‘Edward Brathwaite Looks at Walcott's “In A Green Night”’, The Voice of St Lucia, 13 April 1963, p.4
Breiner, , Laurence, A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Brown, , Lloyd, W., ‘The Personal Odyssey of Derek Walcott’, West Indian Poetry (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978), pp. 118–38
Brown, Wayne, ‘Derek Walcott: His Poetry and His People’ [The Arkansas Testament], Caribbean Affairs, 1:3 (July-September 1988), 174–93
Chamberlin, , Edward, J., Come Back To Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press; Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993), esp. pp. 121–6 and 155–75
Donoghue, Denis, ‘Themes from Derek Walcott’ [Sea Grapes], Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 6:1 (Fall/Winter, 1977), 88–100
Fido, , Elaine, , ‘Walcott and Sexual Politics: Macho Conventions Shape the Moon’, The Literary Half-Yearly, 26:1 (January 1985), 43–60
Fido, , Elaine, , ‘Value Judgements on Art and the Question of Macho Attitudes: The Case of Derek Walcott’, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 21:1 (1986), 109–19
Figueroa, John J., ‘Creole in Literature: Beyond Verisimilitude: Texture and Varieties: Derek Walcott’, Yearbook of English Studies, 25 (1995), 156–62
Hannan, , Jim, , ‘Crossing Couplets: Making Form the Matter of Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound’, New Literary History, 33:3 (Summer 2002), 559–79
Ismond, Patricia, ‘Walcott's Later Drama: from “Joker” to “Remembrance”’, Ariel, 16:3 (July 1985), 89–101
Ismond, Patricia, ‘Woman as Race-Containing Symbol in Walcott's Poetry’, Journal of West Indian Literature, 8:2 (April 1999), 83–89
James, Louis, ‘From Crusoe to Omeros: Derek Walcott’, in Caribbean Literature in English (London and New York: Longman, 1999), pp.179–84
Kessler, Joyce, ‘All the Horned Island's Birds: The Transformative African Symbols of Walcott's Omeros’, The Arkansas Review, 5:1–2 (August 1996), 1–9
King-Pedroso, Natalie, ‘“I-Tie-All My People-Together”: New World Appropriations of the Yoruba Deity Oshun in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and Derek Walcott's Omeros’, Journal of Caribbean Studies, 15:1 and 2 (Fall 2000), 61–94
Kirsch, , Adam, ‘Unphantasmal Peace’ [The Bounty], The New Republic, 15 December 1997, pp. 42–5
Leithauser, Brad, ‘Ancestral Rhyme’ [Omeros], The New Yorker, 61:52 (11 February 1991), pp. 91–5
Lennard, John, The Poetry Handbook, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Lernout, Geert, ‘Derek Walcott's Omeros: The Isle is Full of Voices’, Kunapipi, 14:2 (1992), 90–104
MacDonald, D. L., ‘Derek Walcott's Don Juans’, Connotations, 4:1–2 (1994/5), 98–118
Morris, Mervyn, ‘Derek Walcott’, in West Indian Literature, 2nd edn, ed. Bruce King (London and Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1995), pp.176–93
Morris, Mervyn, ‘The Wandering Eye’ [The Prodigal], The Washington Post Book World, 21 November 2004, p. 12
Okpewho, Isidore, ‘Walcott, Homer, and the “Black Atlantic”’, Research in African Literatures, 33:1 (Spring 2002), 27–44
Olaniyan, Tejumola, ‘Derek Walcott: Islands of History at a Rendezvous with a Muse’, in Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American and Caribbean Drama (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 93–115
Questel, Victor, ‘Walcott's Major Triumph’ [Another Life], Tapia, 23 December 1973, pp. 6–7; 30 December 1973, pp. 6–7
Thieme, John, ‘“I decompose but I composing still”: Derek Walcott and “The Spoiler's Return”’, Yearbook of English Studies, 25 (1995), 162–72