ISBN-13: 9781784741396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 64 str.
'The N Word
You sly devil. Lounging in a Pinter script
or pitched from a transit van's 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 to shine a light on all that is dark, hidden, 'smuggled from polite conversation'. Here too are poems on exile, migration, masculinity and hip-hop, all in Kayo's inimitable passion and style.