obel laureate Derek Walcott was honoured with Britain's most prestigious award forpoetry last night when he won the TS Eliot prize.
Judges singled out his collection White Egrets as "possibly the last from the hand of the master".
The highly-acclaimed meditation on ageing and dying in his native Caribbean was published in the aftermath of Walcott's withdrawal from the race to be Oxford Professor of Poetry amid a smear campaign in which decades-old claims of sexual harassment by a student resurfaced during a bitterly fought election.
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