Ishion Hutchinson's School of Instructions

Jamaican poet and essayist, Ishion Hutchinson, has a new poetry collection. School of Instructions is now available from Macmillan Publishers. The work recounts the experience and contributions of West Indian soldiers during the First World War.

For some recent coverage of Hutchinson's third collection, see:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/18/ishion-hutchinson-school-of-instructions-ts-eliot-prize-interview (The Guardian)

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/10/29/poet-in-the-academy-ishion-hutchinson/ (New York Review of Books)

Also, check out some of my earlier blog posts on Ishion Hutchinson's poems:

https://poetsofthecaribbean.blogspot.com/2011/10/doris-at-river-by-ishion-hutchinson.html

https://poetsofthecaribbean.blogspot.com/2011/10/abeng-by-ishion-hutchinson.html

https://poetsofthecaribbean.blogspot.com/2011/10/far-district-reviews.html