‘breakers that chuff; long, leaden swells of pewter’

Mar 16, 2023 ~ daveevaphotograms ~ Leave a comment

I took this photo a couple of weeks ago, in the Caribbean. It’s Derek Walcott’s childhood home in Castries, St Lucia. I had some Walcott with me; I like to read poets in their own territory. I’ve read Pablo Neruda in Chile, Robert Lowell in Boston, Dylan Thomas on the Gower Peninsular and, to give … Continue reading ‘breakers that chuff; long, leaden swells of pewter’

The time is not ripe

Apr 9, 2021Apr 9, 2021 ~ daveevaphotograms ~ 1 Comment

The Peruvian poet Emilio Adolfo Westphalen, born in 1911, published his first two books in 1933 and 1935. They were highly successful. His next poems appeared after a silence of 45 years. During this time, if asked, he always said “The time is not ripe”. He seems never to have been translated into English, and … Continue reading The time is not ripe