Richard Georges

Richard Georges is the first Virgin Islands Poet Laureate (2020) and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as essays and fiction. His most recent collection, Epiphaneia (2019), won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His first debut, Make Us All Islands (2017), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and his second book, Giant (2018), was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize. His next collection of poems, Shore/Lines (2027), is forthcoming from Peepal Tree Press in the UK and Akashic Books in the US.