Arts for the 21st Century

Richard Georges

Richard Georges

Richard Georges was born in Trinidad and grew up in the British Virgin Islands. He lives and works in Tortola today. His poetry has appeared in various journals. He has published three volumes: Make us all islands (Shearsman Books, 2017), Giant (Platypus Press, 2017) and Epiphaneia (Outspoken press, 2019). Epiphaneia won the prestigious OCM Bocas poetry and overall award in 2020. In 2020, Richard Georges was selected as the first Poet Laureate of the British Virgin Islands. He was also appointed as the President of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, BVI.

unmaking

after the screaming bombs have stopped falling & the rifle mouths have fallen silent this island you have made still reverberates resonates with your violence, an echo a cycle, the newspeople tell us a thing is not the thing our eyes tell us it is a campaign of erasure, of making
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