ARGONAUT BOOKS

'A Blood Condition' tells a story of inheritance - the people, places, cultures, and memories that form us. Kayo Chingonyi explores how distance and time, nations and a century's history, can collapse within a body; our past continuous in our present. From London, Leeds, and The North East to the banks of the Zambezi river, these poems consider change and permanence, grief and joy, the painful ongoing process of letting go, with remarkable music and clarity. Reviews Chingonyi's poetic voice finds its full-throated maturity... Deep introspection becomes the vulnerable and...Read More