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Jamaica: Trusting Walcott

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Education, Ideas, Language, Literature, Religion

“A battle over individuality, morality, divinity, and spelling was being fought on a Caribbean beach. I loved it.” A passage from Omeros inspires Jamaican Geoffrey Philp to write about why he trusts poet Derek Walcott more than his pastor. [1]