Giant
by Richard Georges
Published by Platypus Press
February 2018
★ Highly commended by the Forward Prizes Longlisted
★ Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Giant is a manifestation, a creation story born of the ocean. Words turn over and under, shipwrecked then safe-shored. A blend of ghosts and myths meld and coalesce into being, as headstrong as the mountains, as wavering as the sea.
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❧ Praise:
“Saints, ghosts, legends blend into one another, layering the land and seascapes with history.” —Rajiv Mohabir
“These poems are sky-rooted and earthbound, at once elusive and grounded as they turn on the revolving eye.” —Ishion Hutchinson