Omeros is a 1990 book of poetry by Derek Walcott. It is a retelling of the story of the Odyssey, set on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. It is generally considered to be his most well known work. Derek Walcott, courtesy of the Nobel Foundation // Biographical Information Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was in the vanguard of the post-colonial school of English language writing. ... Odysseus and Nausicaä - by Charles Gleyre The Odyssey (Greek Ὀδυσσεία) is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first of which is the Iliad. ...