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          Nii Ayikwei Parkes born in the United Kingdom to parents from Ghana, where he was raised, is a performance poet, writer, publisher and sociocultural....

          Nii Ayikwei Parkes

          Nii Ayikwei Parkes grew up in Ghana but was born in the UK where he later returned for further study, where with the friendship and tutelage of fellow black poets he became a vibrant new voice in British performance poetry.

          Parkes has published five books of poems, beginning with the pamphlet eyes of a boy, lips of a man (1999), M is for Madrigal (2004), and the Michael Marks Award-shortlisted ballast: a remix (2009).

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          6. His debut collection, The Makings of You, was published by Peepal Press in 2010. That year, Parkes also published his first novel, Tail of the Blue Bird, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and translated into multiple languages, winning both of France’s major prizes for translated fiction – Prix Baudelaire and Prix Laure Bataillon.

          His most recent collection, The Geez, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for 2020, described by PBS as navigating ‘the blurred lines between age and youth; the real and the ima