Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi Matthew Dickman high and low

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“As long as we sing his songs

desire their own species

You can barely walk across the living room without stubbing your toe on a bit or getting some in your eye

There's a memorable prose poem – in which a cow grazes peacefully around one of the many World War One craters that pock the earth around Ypres – that hints at themes of catastrophe and recovery

Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi Matthew Dickman high and lowThe 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