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Richard Georges
Richard Georges is a writer, editor, and lecturer in the British Virgin Islands. His poems have appeared in Prelude, Smartish Pace, The Poetry Review, WILDNESS, Wasafiri, The Rusty Toque, Reservoir, L'Ephemere, The 2018 Forward Book of Poetry and elsewhere. He is the author of Make Us All Islands (Shearsman), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Giant (Platypus Press).

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Two Poems

Poetry

July 2018

Richard Georges

Poetry

July 2018

Dead Reckoning   They say birds always find their way back home but home is a nowhere – a memory; a never was.  ...

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September 2012

Negation: A Response to Lars Iyer's 'Nude in Your Hot Tub'

Scott Esposito

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September 2012

I do not know whether I have anything to say, I know that I am saying nothing; I do...

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June 2015

Uneasy Lies the Head

William Watkin

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June 2015

Last October I was standing in my kitchen, waiting for espresso to trickle from the spout of our imposing...

Prize Entry

April 2015

Every Woman to the Rope

Joanna Quinn

Prize Entry

April 2015

My father believed the sea to be covetous: a pleading dog that would lap at you adoringly, sidling up...

 

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