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  • May Day

  • By: Jackie Kay
  • Narrated by: Jackie Kay
  • Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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This poetry collection is beautifully and skilfully read by the author, renowned poet Jackie Kay.

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

As the title suggests, 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, for example, 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.
©2024 Jackie Kay (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
European Gender Studies Poetry Politics & Government Celebration
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I was really looking forward to these poems, but found ir very difficult to appreciate them; the presentation ran one into another and seemed rather detachedf. Even when it wasn't I felt emotionally detached from personal and happenings

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