{"product_id":"9781784741396-kumukanda","title":"Kumukanda","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief. A gorgeous and necessary collection from one of my favourite writers' Warsan Shire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslating 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderpinned 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize; Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize; Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; Roehampton Poetry Prize; Jhalak Prize 2018*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449946780022,"sku":"9781784741396","price":10.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34529224.jpg?v=1760446941","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784741396-kumukanda","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}