TY - BOOK AU - Chingonyi, Kayo TI - Kumukanda SN - 9781473547032 PY - 2017/// CY - [London] PB - Vintage Digital N1 - Downloadable eBook; Fiction; Adult N2 - Remote; *Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize 2017* *Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph* ?Urban and urbane, it?s a magnificent debut? Daily Telegraph ?A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and at times darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief - from one of my favourite writers? - Warsan Shire Translating as ?initiation?, kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi?s remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary; between the living and the dead; between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived. Underpinned by a love of music, language and literature, here is a powerful exploration of race, identity and masculinity, celebrating what it means to be British and not British, all at once; Mode of access: World Wide Web; [electronic resource] UR - https://fe.bolindadigital.com/wldcs_bol_fo/b2i/productDetail.html?productId=RDH_467785&b2iSite=6348&preview=no ER -