Praise for A Blood Condition: 'A thing of beauty. It's a pleasure to read such a sure and strident second outing from one of our most celebrated young poets' Diana Evans, Guardian 'The musicality and the hard reason is just so fresh, you feel altered by it' Andrew O'Hagan, New Statesman 'An elegantly spare, cathartic and poignant but never indulgent collection that invites repeated reading' Telegraph 'Has a dignity that honours the past without indulging in any overflow of personal feeling . Chingonyi's authentic, reined-in passions are stirring. [His] poems grow out of gaps, out of the moments when nothing more can be done. The dead cannot be recovered, time cannot be reclaimed, the damage to the river is likely to be permanent, but a poem can be written and take its quietly powerful stand' Observer 'There is thrilling formal accomplishment on display in these poems. poignant and moving. there are brilliant evocations of the north of England' Andrew McMillan, Poetry Book Society 'Kayo Chingonyi's second book, A Blood Condition, is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year. His ability to blend music, grief and yearning is unmatched' Rishi Dastidar, Guardian.