A Blood Condition

A Blood Condition
Kayo Chingonyi
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h216 x 135mm - 80pg
22 Apr 2021 UK
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9781784743901
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The moving, expansive, and dazzling second collection from award-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi A Blood Condition tells a story of inheritance - the people, places, cultures and memories that form us. Kayo Chingonyi explores how distance and time, nations and a century' s history, can collapse within a body; our past continuous in our present. From London, Leeds, and The North East to the banks of the Zambezi river, these poems consider change and permanence, grief and joy, the painful ongoing process of letting go, with remarkable music and clarity. Praise for Kumukanda-' Chingonyi' s poems are full of questions that need asking. His gift is for pushing poems further than you expected them to go' Observer' Kayo' s poetry is beautiful, thoughtful, musical and nostalgic' Nikesh Shukla' Whether recalling his parents' deaths or celebrating the art of the mixtape, Chingonyi' s poise is astonishing' Daily Telegraph
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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ISBN-13: 9781784743901
Published: 22 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 80

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