'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...
'The N Word You sly devil. Lounging in a Pinter script or pitched from a transit van's rolled-down window; my shadow on ...