Kayo Chingonyi Poetry Reading

Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987, and moved to the UK at the age of six. He is the author of two pamphlets, and a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality
in British Poetry. In 2012, he was awarded a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and was Associate Poet at
the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 2015. His first full-length collection, Kumukanda,
won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Costa
Poetry Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize,
the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Jhalak
Prize. Kayo was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester before
joining Durham University as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.