Making the Caribbean soldiers of World War One visible through verse

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Award-winning Jamaican poet Tanya Shirley's poem Madness is Not For Everybody imagines a Caribbean soldier's experiences of mental illness and colonialism in the trenches. Tanya’s poem is published in Unwritten, a collection of new poems honouring the forgotten contribution of the British West Indian Regiment to World War One. Image: Cover artwork from the anthology 'Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War.' Credit: Sophie Herxheimer/ Nine Arches Press