Ishion Hutchinson: 'I can hear a poem before it arrives' – Repeating Islands

Kate Kellaway (The Guardian) interviews poet Ishion Hutchinson: “The Jamaican poet on his new collection about West Indian soldiers in the first world war, diving into the messiness of language, and the book he rereads every autumn.” Ishion Hutchinson, 40, is an original, innovative and fastidious poet whose third collection, School of Instructions, about West Indian…

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