For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Kayo Chingonyi is an Anthony Burgess Fellow at The University of Manchester and poetry editor at The White Review. His first full-length collection of poems, Kumukanda, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2017.
‘To live,’ writes Walter Benjamin, ‘means to leave traces’. As one might expect, Benjamin’s observation is not without a certain melancholy. Traces are lost...