School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson Fiona Moore themselves parts of a larger

themselves parts of a larger whole

Gearóid Mac Lochlainn

 The High Window  [on Between the Islands]

it scorches

Hannah Todd

School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson Fiona Moore themselves parts of a largerIn 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