“ ... a poet, a performer of miracles, enraptured by the miraculous.”
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Richard Georges is a writer and editor in the British Virgin Islands. His most recent book, Epiphaneia (2019), won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and his first book, Make Us All Islands (2017), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book, Giant (2018), was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize.
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“Georges’ harsh and lyrical hymns portray the painful beauty of the Virgin Islands and Caribbean archipelago.”
— Loretta Collins Klobah, author of The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman
