Make Us All Islands
by Richard Georges
Published by Shearsman Books (2017)
★ Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
A history submerged in the ever-shifting currents of the ocean emerges in this debut collection by Richard Georges. These poems craft narratives of long forgotten migrations, shipwrecks, and the personal with a vivid and sensual aesthetic that is located in the contested spaces between the sea and the shore.
Cover by Brandon Jacob Hudson.
Make Us All Islands has been translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández and is available from Franz Ediciones (Madrid) here.
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❧ Praise:
“Singing ‘light into bleakness,’ in vivid poetic language that shakes us out of apathy” —Loretta Collins Klobah
“Richard Georges’ poems enter Caribbean literature like the sea rolling up sotto voce on the sand after the last of the small fuss of waves in the shallows.”
—Vladimir Lucien
