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Kayo Chingonyi

Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi's latest book, Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus, 2017) was a Guardian and Telegraph book of the year and won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. Kayo was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester, and an Associate Poet at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. He has performed his work at festivals and events around the world, is Poetry Editor for The White Review, and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Durham University.


A Poet’s Case for Wasting Time

Kayo Chingonyi on Setting Aside the Imperatives of Late Capitalism
October 10, 2019  By Kayo Chingonyi
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