A Blood Condition

Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987, and moved to the UK at the age of six. He is the author of two pamphlets, and a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry. In 2012, he was awarded a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and was Associate Poet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 2015. His first full-length collection, Kumukanda, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize, the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Jhalak Prize. Kayo was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester, and an Associate Poet at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. He has performed his work at festivals and events around the world, is Poetry Editor for The White Review, and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Durham University.

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Chingonyi's poetic voice finds its full-throated maturity... Deep introspection becomes the vulnerable and brave heart of the book, rendered into jewel-like poems in "Origin Myth"... An elegantly spare, cathartic and poignant but never indulgent collection that invites repeated reading Dzifa Benson Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Kayo Chingonyi
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781784743901
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-390-1
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 7 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, Zambia, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to Black British African people, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects