Derek Walcott wins T.S. Eliot Prize

via the Guardian:

The winning collection, White Egrets, was described by the chair of judges, poet Anne Stevenson, as "moving and technically flawless".

"It took us not very long to decide that this collection was the yardstick by which all the others were to be measured. These are beautiful lines; beautiful poetry," she said.

Walcott was last the subject of newspaper headlines in 2009, when he withdrew from the election for the post of Oxford professor of poetry after dossiers detailing allegations he had sexually harassed former students were sent to academics.