Jackie Kay
"Warm, tough, painful and often very funny poems."
Fleur Adcock, Sunday Times
Chaired by Di Hope
Jackie Kay is a multi award-winning poet and author whose most recent collection is Darling: New and Selected Poems. She burst onto the literary landscape with the searing collection of poetry The Adoption Papers which tells the story – her story – of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple. It received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, a Saltire First Book of the Year Award and a Forward Prize. Since then she has continued to dazzle with further collections of poetry for both children and adults including Two's Company, Other Lovers and Life Mask, a novel Trumpet, collections of short stories, Why Don’t You Stop Talking and Wish I Was Here, a novel for children, Strawgirl, and a novella, Sonata. She has also continued to bag numerous prizes and awards and she was awarded an MBE in 2006 for services to literature. Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, and cultural difference were all be on the agenda at this stellar fevent.
Wednesday 5 December 2007
Board Room, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
