Kumukanda

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book_author_name: 
Kayo Chingonyi
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Vintage Publishing
published_date: 
01/06/2017
isbn: 
9781784741396
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Poetry > Individual poets
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Kayo Chingonyi|Paperback|Vintage Publishing|01/06/2017
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9781784741396
Book Description: 
Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards Poetry Award Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary; between the living and the dead; between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived. Underpinned by a love of music, language and literature, here is a powerful exploration of race, identity and masculinity, celebrating what it means to be British and not British, all at once. '[A] wonderful debut... A subtle and affecting, lyrical and powerful collection that explores boyhood, rites of passage, the ancient and the modern world' - Jackie Kay

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