May day

Jackie Kay

£10.99

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

ISBN: 9781509864836 Category:

Description

May Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay.

These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kay’s childhood, accompanying her parents’ Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s and 90s, up to the present day when a global pandemic intersects with the urgency of Black Lives Matter.

Kay brings to life a cast of influential figures, delving beneath the surfaces of received narratives: the Jamaican model Fanny Eaton, muse of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England; Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and the poet Audre Lorde; and a ‘what-if’ poem concerning Rabbie Burns and a road-not-taken towards the West Indian slave trade. Woven through the collection is a suite of lyric poems concerning the recent losses of Kay’s parents: poems of grief and profound change that are infused with the light of love and celebration.

Additional information

Weight 0.156 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 15.3 × 0.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

96

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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