Event
9th October
3 Essex Poets, Big Day of Poetry at Cramphorn Theatre.

Bio
Kayo Chingonyi has performed his poetry at Soho Theatre, Tate Modern, The Southbank Centre, Shakespeare's Globe and Buckingham Palace as well as countless live venues across the country.
His work has been broadcast on Radio Five Live and Sheffield Live and is anthologized in The Shuffle Anthology 2009 and City Lighthouse (tall-lighthouse, 2009) as well as appearing in print and online magazines including Pomegranate and Tate Etc.
He has completed commissions for organisations such as Louis Vuitton and The Poetry Society and was a contributor to Asking a Shadow to Dance a DVD anthology, produced by Oxfam, launched in December 2009.
For more info visit: http://myspace.com/requiem87
Kayo lives in Dagenham, Essex.

Poem


Adrian Loses His Voice


Ask my name on match day
and I’ll tell you
the blue stripes of this Nylon shirt
bleed through to the skin. No more.

I won’t fill the blank application form
dividing us with talk of what I do
between rush hour train journeys.
But ask who I am and I’ll show you

A chorus of men, thousands strong,
praying for glory, baying expletives
at smirking enemies—
friends before the turnstile clicked
this world into existence.

As for why I ransom my hope
to a sphere of stitched hexagons?
Wait for the hush
before a perfectly timed strike ripples white mesh,
and tell me your ribs are not tuning forks, struck.