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“You will love again the stranger who was your self.” Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reads Derek Walcott’s poem “Love After Love” from Collected Poems: 1948–1984 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986) for a tribute to the poet and playwright. Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, passed away on March 17, 2017.
Tags: Poetry | Derek Walcott | Linton Kwesi Johnson | reading | dub poetry | Love After Love | Nobel Prize | Nobel laureate | 1992 | 1986 | Collected Poems: 1948–1984 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux
