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/
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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
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From 2020: Jackie Kay reads her poem “Darling”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn173ekE7iA
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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
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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:
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.
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
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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
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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 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.
Link: https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3
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