School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson shearsman It draws you in to

It draws you in to confront the subjects that no one wants to talk about and yet it is real and right in our midst

whose political ideology he loathed

It is a collection that sits on the threshold between the personal and the profound

in this dark and thrilling debut

School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson shearsman It draws you in toIn language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in the Middle East war theatre and refracts their struggle against the colonial power they served. The narratives of the soldiers overlap with Godspeed, a young schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the