"In Shore/Lines, Richard Georges’ sumptuous fourth collection, the poet attunes his ear to the echoes of the British Virgin Islands, to recover what has been lost and give a voice to what refuses to be forgotten. The landscape thrums as a living archive, replete with ‘silent warnings written in the ground’, an ocean that roars, birds driven by ‘brash hunger’, and hurricanes that herald ruin, but perhaps no more so than people, at times: ‘there are ways the body must be a blade’. Through poems that reestablish that vital connection between the human and the nonhuman, Georges captures the Caribbean’s startling beauty, complex nostalgia and fragile hope. But where hope is sometimes splintered – by the consequences of climate change and the aftereffects of imperialism – it remains intact through tentative connections to lovers, elders, neighbours, workers and relatives. This is a poet of earthy wisdom and keen sensitivity, reminding us that truly the only way to live is ‘to use the sun / to measure the distance // to your body from mine’. " — Isabelle Baafi, poet, writer, editor

 "In Shore/Lines, Richard Georges writes as if the sea itself remembers. His poems move through grief, history, and longing like waves against an island shore wearing down what hurts, returning what was lost, and reminding us that even broken places continue to sing. A triumph.” —Caleb Femi, author of The Wickedest