Jackie Kay
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The Lit Rooms
Readings from celebrated poet and makar, Jackie Kay.
Scottish poet Jackie Kay has released numerous poetry collections, including The Adoption Papers, Maw Broon Monologues and The Empathetic Store. Her 1998 novel Trumpet, based on the life of American jazz musician Billy Tipton, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2010 she published the memoir Red Dust Road, which explores her journey to trace her biological parents. In 2016 she succeeded Liz Lochhead as Scots Makar (national poet of Scotland).
Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay published her first volume of poems The Adoption Papers in 1991 and her first novel Trumpet was published in 1998. Her Maw Broon Monologues…
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