Synopsis
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.
The Verb | Hidden
Kayo Chingonyi discusses the Black British poetry anthology he has edited; More Fiya, a sequel to the seminal 1998 collection The Fire People, edited by Lemn Sissay. Kayo Chingonyi is a poetry editor at Bloomsbury. He won the Dylan Thomas prize for his debut poetry collection Kumukanda, and his most recent collection A Blood Condition was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and the Costa Poetry Award.