Arts for the 21st Century

George Goddard

George Goddard

George Goddard is a Saint Lucian writer. In 2016 he published his first collection of poetry, “Interstice”, and is currently working on two other collections. His work has also appeared in BIM: Arts for the 21st Century (2020 & 2019), Interviewing the Caribbean (2020 & 2017), the punch magazine (2018), the Caribbean Writer (2017) and the Missing Slate (2015) among others. Sent Lisi: Poems and Art of Saint Lucia (2014) and Roseau Valley and other poems (2003) are two Saint Lucian anthologies which have featured his writing.

Enbas La Terre II

The jour ouvert, the mardi gras, the numbing dance that does not end this careless costume, its sinews drenched in dew in glitter of sweat, in tatters of flesh will fall away and like your forebears you’ll philosophise «enbas la terre pas ni plaisir», you