About
Kayo Chingonyi is the author of two poetry pamphlets, Some Bright Elegance (Salt, 2012), and The Colour of James Brown's Scream (Akashic, 2016). He was Associate Poet at the ICA between Autumn 2015 & Spring 2016 and has held residencies at Cove Park, Royal Holloway University of London, and Nuffield Council on Bioethics. His first full-length collection, Kumukanda, will be published by Chatto & Windus in 2017.
Kayo is also the founder and editor of The Poetics of Grime - a blog exploring the poetic significance of grime lyricism.
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