Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War Matthew Francis T he son of an

T he son of an immigrant tailor

writer and cultural advisor Issa Makhlouf

Part elegy

the years spent at the Jesuit college of Fordham in the USA

Gerrit Kouwenaar

Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War Matthew Francis T he son of anWith contributions from Jay Bernard, Malika Booker, Kat Francois, Jay T. John, Anthony Joseph, Ishion Hutchinson, Charnell Lucien, Vladimir Lucien, Rachel Manley, Tanya Shirley and Karen McCarthy Woolf. What does it mean to fight for a mother country that refuses to accept you as one of its own? Britains First World War poets changed the way we view military conflict and had a deep impact on the national psyche. Yet the stories of the 15,600