"Some Bright Elegance" is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning and consolation in the wake of bereavement, the memorial role of music, and the effects of social change on local communities. The book is also threaded with imagined scenes centred on those defining moments when people, places or objects take on new significances.
"Some Bright Elegance" is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for me...
'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 ...
The moving, expansive, and dazzling second collection from award-winning poet Kayo ChingonyiA Blood Condition tells a story of inheritance - the people, places, cultures and memories that form us.
The moving, expansive, and dazzling second collection from award-winning poet Kayo ChingonyiA Blood Condition tells a story of inheritance - the peopl...