Ishion Hutchinson reads "LI" from School of Instructions

Ishion Hutchinson reads his passage “LI,” excerpted from his 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize-longlisted collection, School of Instructions (Faber & Faber, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District, which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and House of Lords and Commons, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, the Whiting Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, among other honours.
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The five shortlisted books for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize will be announced on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 10:00am ET.
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