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Derek Walcott tribute: Linton Kwesi Johnson reads Love After Love - BBC Newsnight

“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.

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Love After Love
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Collected Poems: 1948–1984
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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