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2026 Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture: Jackie Kay
20 October, Glasgow City Chambers. Tickets £10

Poet & author Jackie Kay will deliver the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s annual lecture, chaired by Lyn Henderson, & talk about responding creatively to the challenges we face & the impact responding creatively can make.

https://reidfoundation.scot/2026/09/2026-jimmy-reid-memorial-lecture/

#Scottish #literature #JackieKay #creativity #Glasgow

2026 Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture: Jackie Kay
20 October, Glasgow City Chambers. Tickets £10

Poet & author Jackie Kay will deliver the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s annual lecture, chaired by Lyn Henderson, & talk about responding creatively to the challenges we face & the impact responding creatively can make.

https://reidfoundation.scot/2026/09/2026-jimmy-reid-memorial-lecture/

#Scottish #literature #JackieKay #creativity #Glasgow

2026 Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture: Jackie Kay
20 October, Glasgow City Chambers. Tickets £10

Poet & author Jackie Kay will deliver the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s annual lecture, chaired by Lyn Henderson, & talk about responding creatively to the challenges we face & the impact responding creatively can make.

https://reidfoundation.scot/2026/09/2026-jimmy-reid-memorial-lecture/

#Scottish #literature #JackieKay #creativity #Glasgow

2026 Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture: Jackie Kay
20 October, Glasgow City Chambers. Tickets £10

Poet & author Jackie Kay will deliver the Jimmy Reid Foundation’s annual lecture, chaired by Lyn Henderson, & talk about responding creatively to the challenges we face & the impact responding creatively can make.

https://reidfoundation.scot/2026/09/2026-jimmy-reid-memorial-lecture/

#Scottish #literature #JackieKay #creativity #Glasgow

Back here, the iron line crosses future, past:
Then my father will surely be seen

Trekking the sodden, lonely land,
Weekenders, together –

—Jackie Kay, “Rannoch Loop”
published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jackie-kay/bantam/9781509887927

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #hiking #Rannoch #Rannochmoor #walking #JackieKay

Back here, the iron line crosses future, past:
Then my father will surely be seen

Trekking the sodden, lonely land,
Weekenders, together –

—Jackie Kay, “Rannoch Loop”
published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jackie-kay/bantam/9781509887927

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #hiking #Rannoch #Rannochmoor #walking #JackieKay

Back here, the iron line crosses future, past:
Then my father will surely be seen

Trekking the sodden, lonely land,
Weekenders, together –

—Jackie Kay, “Rannoch Loop”
published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jackie-kay/bantam/9781509887927

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #hiking #Rannoch #Rannochmoor #walking #JackieKay

Back here, the iron line crosses future, past:
Then my father will surely be seen

Trekking the sodden, lonely land,
Weekenders, together –

—Jackie Kay, “Rannoch Loop”
published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jackie-kay/bantam/9781509887927

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #hiking #Rannoch #Rannochmoor #walking #JackieKay

Back in the Frame: the first annual Maud Sulter Lecture – June 2024

Poet, playwright, novelist, & former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay discusses the friendship & artistic synergy between herself & Maud Sulter

9/11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1PyVEManI

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #JackieKay

Back in the Frame: the first annual Maud Sulter Lecture – June 2024

Poet, playwright, novelist, & former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay discusses the friendship & artistic synergy between herself & Maud Sulter

9/11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1PyVEManI

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #JackieKay

Back in the Frame: the first annual Maud Sulter Lecture – June 2024

Poet, playwright, novelist, & former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay discusses the friendship & artistic synergy between herself & Maud Sulter

9/11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1PyVEManI

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #JackieKay

Back in the Frame: the first annual Maud Sulter Lecture – June 2024

Poet, playwright, novelist, & former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay discusses the friendship & artistic synergy between herself & Maud Sulter

9/11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1PyVEManI

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #JackieKay

“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

“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

“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

“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

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 4

Archive 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 now

57 minutes

#BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

#ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
#SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
#MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
#MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
#JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

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 4

Archive 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 now

57 minutes

#BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

#ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
#SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
#MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
#MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
#JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

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 4

Archive 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 now

57 minutes

#BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

#ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
#SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
#MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
#MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
#JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

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 4

Archive 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 now

57 minutes

#BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

#ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
#SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
#MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
#MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
#JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

Lovely video segment with a Jackie Kay poem 😍

#JackieKay #Poetry #Poem

Lovely video segment with a Jackie Kay poem 😍

#JackieKay #Poetry #Poem

Lovely video segment with a Jackie Kay poem 😍

#JackieKay #Poetry #Poem

Lovely video segment with a Jackie Kay poem 😍

#JackieKay #Poetry #Poem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From 2020: Jackie Kay reads her poem “Darling”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn173ekE7iA

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

From 2020: Jackie Kay reads her poem “Darling”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn173ekE7iA

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

From 2020: Jackie Kay reads her poem “Darling”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn173ekE7iA

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

From 2020: Jackie Kay reads her poem “Darling”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn173ekE7iA

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #grief #death

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

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

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

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

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:

https://poetryarchive.org/poem/george-square/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

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:

https://poetryarchive.org/poem/george-square/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

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:

https://poetryarchive.org/poem/george-square/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

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:

https://poetryarchive.org/poem/george-square/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

#Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

#Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

#Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jttv

#Scottish #literature #identity #poetry #JackieKay #Glasgow

New quotes unveiled on the Parliament’s Canongate Wall
Quotes from Makars Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay and Kathleen Jamie

https://www.parliament.scot/about/news/news-listing/new-quotes-unveiled-on-canongate-wall

#Poetry #ScottishParliament #Edinburgh #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie #CanongateWall

New quotes unveiled on the Parliament’s Canongate Wall
Quotes from Makars Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay and Kathleen Jamie

https://www.parliament.scot/about/news/news-listing/new-quotes-unveiled-on-canongate-wall

#Poetry #ScottishParliament #Edinburgh #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie #CanongateWall

New quotes unveiled on the Parliament’s Canongate Wall
Quotes from Makars Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay and Kathleen Jamie

https://www.parliament.scot/about/news/news-listing/new-quotes-unveiled-on-canongate-wall

#Poetry #ScottishParliament #Edinburgh #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie #CanongateWall

New quotes unveiled on the Parliament’s Canongate Wall
Quotes from Makars Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay and Kathleen Jamie

https://www.parliament.scot/about/news/news-listing/new-quotes-unveiled-on-canongate-wall

#Poetry #ScottishParliament #Edinburgh #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie #CanongateWall

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

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

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

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

“It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
29 April, free online

Dr 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.

@litstudies

Link: https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3

#Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity

“It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
29 April, free online

Dr 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.

@litstudies

Link: https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3

#Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity

“It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
29 April, free online

Dr 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.

@litstudies

Link: https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3

#Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity

“It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
29 April, free online

Dr 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.

@litstudies

Link: https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3

#Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity