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The long-awaited collection from one of Britain¿s finest living poets, and a chronicle of activism in the UK over six decades.

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Originally published... in Great Britain by Absolute Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bath, in 1997, and subsequently published reat Britian by Faber & Faber Limited, London, in 2021."--Title page verso.

What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.

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She [Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she's the reason I started singing, really' - Janis Joplin'[Jackie Kay] offers the most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC MusicBessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894.

One of Scotland's most celebrated living writers.' SpectatorIn The Lamplighter award-winning writer and poet, Scottish Makar Jackie Kay takes us on a journey into the dark heart of Britain's legacy in the slave trade. First produced as a play, on the page it reads as a profound and tragic choral poem. We watch as four women and one man tell the story of their lives through slavery, from the fort, to the slave ship, through the middle passage, ...

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In 1970s Scotland, an adopted mixed race woman sets out to find her birth parents. Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions.

A searing, tender look at queer Black womanhood by award-winning writer and Scots Makar Jackie Kay.

Jackie Kay ha da sempre considerato la poesia un potente strumento che le ha concesso, a partire dagli anni successivi al decennio storico inglese degli Anni Ottanta, caratterizzato dalle politiche economico-sociali attuate dal governo Thatcher, la prerogativa di dare voce a coloro che non ne hanno mai avuto diritto o la possibilità di esprimerla, soprattutto agli emarginati (othered) relegati in una dimensione di "alterità" (otherness) a live...

Modelled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained.

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Jackie Kay’s first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit – one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus – Kay’s own, her father’s, and his own father’s – to show us how the body holds its own story. Kay shows how old injuries can emerge years later, how we bear and absorb the loss of friends, how we celebrate and welcome new life, and how we embody our times,...

An anthology of work from British black and Asian poets.

An exhilarating collection of stories from the legendary Jackie Kay.

A stunner. I am heartbroken to have finished it' Ali Smith In Jackie Kay's first collection of stories, ordinary lives are transformed by secrets. Her world might seem familiar - sex, death and family cast long shadows - but the roles of mothers, daughters and lovers are imagined and revealed in the most surprising of ways. Sometimes it is the things that we choose to hide within ourselves which can transform us - and that has never been more ...

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