Richard Georges is a writer, editor, and lecturer in the British Virgin Islands. In his second collection of poems, Giant, Richard gives us a portrait of the BVI through landscape, through its history and its present. In our conversation, Richard and I talked about his book, the aftermath of empire in the BVI, and the relationship between poetry and myth. For the second segment, Richard talked about the particular moment that the BVI faced in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

(Conversation recorded June 12, 2018.)

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Show Notes:

• Richard Georges
• Richard Georges - Giant
• Richard Georges - Epiphaneia
• Richard Georges - Make Us All Islands
• Moko
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Ozymandias”
• Ramayana
• Saint Ursula
• Soucouyant
• Douen
• Derek Walcott
• Kamau Brathwaite
• Craig Santos Perez
• Craig Santos Perez - From Unincorporated Territory
• Shansi Miller
• Moko Magazine - Paintings by Shansi Miller
• Kei Miller - Augustown
• Shivanee Ramlochan
• Shivanee Ramlochan - Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

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Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Mike Sakasegawa