Writing (Aidoo Centre), launched in Accra in March 2017, under the auspices of the Kojo Yankah School of Communications Studies at the African University College of Communications (AUCC). He serves on the editorial board of World Literature Today, is a trustee of the Caine Prize, and in 2019 became Producer of Literature and Talks at the Brighton Festival. He was chair of judges for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His 2020 poetry collection, The Geez, was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Walcott Prize, and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Personal life Parkes is a descendant of J. C. E. Parkes, the Sierra Leone Creole civil servant. Selected bibliography Writing by Parkes has appeared in many publications, including Granta, The Guardian, Index on Censorship, International PEN Magazine, The Liberal, The Mechanics' Institute Review, Poetry News, Poetry Review, Sable, Statement (CSULA), Storyteller Magazine, X Magazine and Wasafiri. Fiction Tail of the Blue Bird (novel), Jonathan Cape, 2009; Vintage, 2010, . Translated into Dutch (by Ronald Cohen) as De blauwe vogel, Q, 2010, . Translated into Japanese (by Kazue Daikoku) as Aoitori no Shippo, Web Press Happa-no-Kofu, 2014, . Translated into French (by Sika Fakambi) as Notre Quelque Part, Zulma, 2014, . Translated into Spanish (by Magdalena Palmer) as El Enigma del Pájaro Azul, Club Editor, 2017, . Translated into Catalan (by Xavier Pàmies) as L'enigma de l'ocell blau, Club Editor, 2017, . Poetry eyes of a boy, lips of a man, Flipped Eye Publishing, 1999; 2nd edition 2005, . M is for Madrigal: Seven Poems, tall lighthouse, 2004, . The Makings of You, Peepal Tree Press, 2010, . The Geez, Peepal Tree Press, 2020, . Children's literature The Parade, Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2010 (as K.P. Kojo) Tales From Africa, Puffin Classics, 2017 (as K.P. Kojo) The Ga Picture Alphabet, Kane Series, 2020 As editor Fourteen Two: Twenty Eight Love Poems, flipped eye publishing, 2004, With Kadija Sesay, Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa, flipped eye publishing, 2005, (includes work by Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Kevin Powell & Jayne Cortez) With Tash Aw, X-24: Unclassified, flipped eye publishing, 2007, (includes work by Naomi Alderman & Daniel Alarcon South of South, Peepal Tree Press, 2011, (includes work by Monica Arac de Nyeko & Junot Díaz) Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry, Peepal Tree Press, 2018, (includes work by Roger Robinson & Tishani Doshi) Selected essays