#jackiekay — Public Fediverse posts
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“When we try to reduce people, we often try and reduce them to this or that, but we’re all multiple… I think the reason that TRUMPET is still a popular book all these years later is because it deals with some of these questions of multiple identity.”
—Jackie Kay discusses her 1998 novel TRUMPET with Lavender Menace volunteer Maeve Sheridan.
https://lavendermenace.org.uk/jackie-kay-on-trumpet
#Scottish #literature #JackieKay #novel #LGBTQ #LGBTQfiction #Queer #QueerLiterature #Trans
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Writing Our Mothers
Archive on 4‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.
What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.
With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4Archive sources:
Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)
Available now57 minutes
#ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
#SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
#MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
#MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
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Lovely video segment with a Jackie Kay poem 😍
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Exploring the Jackie Kay Archive
28 May, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, booking required.Explore the personal archive of Jackie Kay, Scotland's former Makar and beloved writer. Curator Dan Sheehy will share his favourite discoveries from cataloguing her lifetime of work.
https://www.nls.uk/whats-on/jackie-kay-archive/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay #womenwriters #archives
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Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…—Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jackie-kay/bantam/9781509887927
#Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay
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From 2020: Jackie Kay reads her poem “Darling”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn173ekE7iA
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death
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You might forget the exact sound of her voice
or how her face looked when sleeping.
You might forget the sound of her quiet weeping
curled into the shape of a half moon…—Jackie Kay, “Darling”
published in DARLING (Bloodaxe, 2007)https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/darling-877
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death
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My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…—Jackie Kay, “George Square”
published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)Listen to Jackie Kay read the poem on the Poetry Archive:
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On BBC Sounds: Jackie Kay talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple.
Jackie first introduction to performance & theatre were the parties her parents hosted to raise money for the Communist Party.
Growing up in Glasgow in the 60s & 70s, Jackie had very few Black role models & took inspiration from the works of Audre Lorde & Angela Davis.
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New quotes unveiled on the Parliament’s Canongate Wall
Quotes from Makars Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay and Kathleen Jamiehttps://www.parliament.scot/about/news/news-listing/new-quotes-unveiled-on-canongate-wall
#Poetry #ScottishParliament #Edinburgh #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie #CanongateWall
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Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
ahint and afore whit will happen tae us:
blind in the present, eyes open to the furore…—Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)A poem for Pride Month 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jackie-kay/bantam/9781509887927
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #love #lovepoem #Pride #PrideMonth #JackieKay
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“It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
29 April, free onlineDr Angelica Michelis will focus on Jackie Kay’s memoir RED DUST ROAD and the ways in which it engages with questions of multiracial/multicultural narratives of Scottishness.
Link: https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3
#Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity
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Jill Calder & Jackie Kay talking the audience through some of the art & images that inspired it (in this case a pic of a young Jimmy Reid) from Coorie Doon in @TheEdinburghBookshop on Burns Night
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54289594518/in/photostream/
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #EdinburghBookshop #JackieKay #JillCaulder #author #auteur #bookstodon #bookshop #librairie #photography #photographi #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #ScottishBooks #ScottishLiterature #CoorieDoon
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Enjoying last night's Jackie Kay and Jill Calder launch for Coorie Doon in @TheEdinburghBookshop
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54288469562/in/dateposted/#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #Bruntsfield #JackieKay #JillCalder #ScottishBooks #ScottishLiterature #Bookstodon #photography #photographie #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse
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Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig
Aly Bain, Andrew Greig & Billy Connolly seek the Loch of the Green Corrie – with MacCaig’s poetry read by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead & Aonghas MacNeacail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0
#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #fishing #AlyBain #AndrewGreig #BillyConnolly #DouglasDunn #AlasdairGray #SeamusHeaney #JackieKay #TomLeonard #LizLochhead #AonghasMacNeacail
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An Evening With Jackie Kay
27 Jan, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Poet, dramatist, writer & former Makar Jackie Kay joins The Lyceum for an evening exploring her writing & career in aid of the theatre. Bring your questions for the interactive Q&A session that will follow. -
Jackie Kay, Bishopbriggs Library
Jackie Kay in Conversation with Josie Long
Tuesday 19 November | 19-20:00Scottish Book Trust https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-scotland/events/2024/jackie-kay-in-conversation-with-josie-long
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Jackie Kay in Conversation with Josie Long
19 Nov, Bishopbriggs Library – freeJackie Kay will read from her latest poetry collection MAY DAY, & discuss political activism & finding one's own political voice with writer & comedian Josie Long
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jackie-kay-in-conversation-with-josie-long-tickets-1073020746939
#Scottish #literature #poetry #politics #politicalpoetry #activism #JackieKay
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The Pleasures of Reading
with Jackie Kay20 Nov, Portobello Bookshop, #Edinburgh & online – free
Join Jackie Kay for this Book Week Scotland event, as she explores the impact that being a reader has had on her life by sharing some of her favourite books.
After the event Jackie Kay will be signing her latest poetry collection, MAY DAY.
#Scottish #literature #reading #BookWeekScotland #JackieKay
https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/the-pleasures-of-reading-with-jackie-kay
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In My Own Words, Series 1: Jackie Kay
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Jackie Kay’s literary archive has been acquired by the National Library of Scotland.
The archive includes personal letters, manuscripts of poems, novels, short stories, plays, diaries & press articles. There’s also schoolbooks & university writing, early essays, family papers, notebooks, photographs, audio cassettes, prizes, awards & honours.
#Scottish #literature #archive #archives #JackieKay
https://media.nls.uk/news/jackie-kay-chooses-national-library-as-home-for-her-archive
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My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
from LIFE MASK, Bloodaxe 2005#Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay
Listen to Jackie Kay read this poem on the Poetry Archive:
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“I could have been brought up by Tories! I could have been in an orphanage. And so I felt my life has been a great escape from other possible lives.”
—Jackie Kay on her life in protest, facing racism, & why her late parents are at the heart of her new collection MAY DAY
#Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/13/poet-jackie-kay-i-could-have-been-brought-up-by-tories
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My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
from LIFE MASK, Bloodaxe 2005#Scottish #literature #poetry #JackieKay #peace #protest
Listen to Jackie Kay read this poem on the Poetry Archive:
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If you're looking for Burns stuff on the telly.
8:30 ,BBC Scotland, Ferguson - Burns' Forgotten HeroMy Top Tip
10pm BBC Four, Angelou on Burns
#MayaAngelou was a *huge* Burns fan, her love is infectious ❤️10:50pm BBC Four Beyond Burns with #JackieKay
#RobertBurns #BurnsNight