Share an inspiring, uplifting and entertaining evening with Jackie Kay, one of the nation’s best-loved poets and former Scottish Makar (National Poet), to celebrate her long-awaited new poetry collection 
May Day
.
A poetry performance will be followed by an in-conversation and an audience Q&A.
The poems in 
May Day
 cover several decades of political activism, from her 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.
Jackie Kay
 was born in Edinburgh. A poet, novelist and writer of short stories, she has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. Her novel, 
Trumpet
, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She has published three collections of stories with Picador, 
Why Don’t You Stop Talking, Wish I Was Here
 and 
Reality, Reality
; three poetry collections, 
Fiere, Bantam 
and
 May Day
; and her memoir, 
Red Dust Road
. From 2016-21 she was the third modern Makar, National Poet for Scotland. She lives in Manchester and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Salford.
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