Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi Forward Prize a bar where a merchant

a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell

seeing visions

And occasionally the world does crack open

April is the Cruellest Month

Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi Forward Prize a bar where a merchantThe N Word You sly devil. Lounging in a Pinter script or pitched from a transit vans rolled down window; my shadow on this un lit road, though you've been smuggled from polite conversation. A writer of power and precision, as striking on the page as he is on the stage, this is Kayo Chingonyi s much anticipated first collection. In poems that are at once assured and incisive, he eloquently confronts issues of race, self portraiture and self perception