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Podcast: The Atlantic Out Loud
Episode: The Anabasis of Godspeed -- Ishion Hutchinson -- January/February 2023
Description: “The Anabasis of Godspeed” is excerpted from a forthcoming book-length poem, School of Instructions. A memorial to the experience of West Indian soldiers serving in British regiments during World War I, the poem is also the narrative of Godspeed, a young boy living in rural Jamaica in the 1990s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices