Kumukanda
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018* *Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018* &apos;A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief. A gorgeous and necessary collection from one of my favourite writers&apos; Warsan Shire Translating as &apos;initiation&apos;, 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&apos;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. *Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize; Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize; Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; Roehampton Poetry Prize; Jhalak Prize 2018*


Publisher: Vintage Digital (June 1, 2017)
Publication date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
File size: 907 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 58 pages
Page numbers source ISBN: 1784741396