Synopsis
Kayo Chingonyi is an award-winning poet, producer, DJ and lyricist. Kayo joins Tom to talk about his much anticipated new collection A Blood Condition, exploring family, identity and his Zambian heritage. Plus his new music podcast series Decode, which takes a deep dive into Dave's Mercury Prize-winning debut album Psychodrama, revealing its musicality and lyricism over 11 episodes.
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Other Archive resources
Start the Week | Crossing the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Class
The poet Kayo Chingonyi moved to Britain when he was a child and in his debut collection he translates the rites of passage of his native Zambia to his new home.
Free Thinking | The Innovative Shape of Poems
The poets Kayo Chingonyi, Paisley Rekdal and Nasser Hussain join Florence Hazrat, who studies punctuation, for a conversation about experimentation, hosted by Sandeep Parmar.