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Matt Simpson Memorial Poetry Reading 2022 with Kayo Chigonyi

Venue Liverpool Hope University
Admission Free
Start Time 17:00
End Time 19:00

Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987, and moved to the UK at the age of six. He is the author of two collections, 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. Kayo was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester before joining Durham University as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.

He is a writer and presenter for the music and culture podcast Decode on Spotify, poetry editor at Bloomsbury, and his most recent collection A Blood Condition was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and the Costa Poetry Award.

For further information, please contact Dr Eleanor Rees at reese@hope.ac.uk

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