NMLP P-006445 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960

Derek Walcott · Jonathan Cape · 1962

UK Cape is the true first as Walcott's first book published outside the Caribbean. It is not his earliest book overall — privately and locally printed West Indian volumes (25 Poems, 1948; Epitaph for the Young; Poems) preceded it. Among his commercially distributed trade books this is the earliest and is much scarcer than his later Farrar, Straus and Giroux titles.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-006445 for "In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960" by Derek Walcott (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-006445, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).