num_pages: 64
description: Translating as initiation 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 Chingonyis 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 2017**Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph*
language: English
title: Kumukanda
publisher: Chatto & Windus