School of Instructions

Informationen zum Autor Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District , winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, House of Lords and Commons , which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and School of Instructions which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, the Whiting Award, and a Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, among other honours. Klappentext In 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. Vorwort This unforgettable book-length poem is both an honouring and an inquisition. Zusammenfassung In 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ishion Hutchinson, Hutchinson Ishion
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2023
• EAN: 9780571383511
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38351-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; First World War, HISTORY / Military / World War I, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), First World War, 1914-1918, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)