More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

by Kayo Chingonyi (Editor)

Compiled by British-Zambian poet Kayo Chingonyi, this follow-up to Lemn Sissay’s The Fire People presents a further selection of voices that have been hitherto underrepresented by the literary establishment. Reflecting a range of experiences in Black British culture, they include the Trinidad-born poet and novelist Anthony Joseph and the Young Poet Laureate for London, Warsan Shire.

208 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2023

About the author

Kayo Chingonyi is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry and the author of two pamphlets, Some Bright Elegance (Salt, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic, 2016). His first full-length collection, Kumukanda, was published in June 2017 by Chatto & Windus and went on to win the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. Kayo has been invited to read from his work at venues and events across the UK and internationally. He was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and has completed residencies with Kingston University, Cove Park, First Story, The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Royal Holloway University of London in partnership with Counterpoints Arts. He was Associate Poet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts from Autumn 2015 to Spring 2016, Anthony Burgess Fellow at Manchester University in 2018, and co-edited issue 62 of Magma Poetry and the Autumn 2016 edition of The Poetry Review. He is now poetry editor for The White Review. Kayo is also an emcee, producer, and DJ and regularly collaborates with musicians and composers both as a poet and a lyricist.