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‘Thom Gunn smuggled the lyric tradition out of post-war Britain
April is the Cruellest Month
seeing visions
Comprising eighty-one poems of nine 9-syllable lines
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi Forward Prize ‘Thom Gunn smuggled the lyricThe N Word You sly devil. Lounging in a Pinter script or pitched from a transit vans 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
