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Bantam

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19 October 2017
80 pages
9781509863174
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Kay’s strength as a poet has always been her clear, plain style, and its fearless spoken poignancy
One of Scotland's most celebrated living writers.
Home truths from a goddess of small things, Jackie Kay depicts a world of grief, joy, love and humour in the sparest terms. This collection is a pick-me-up – fresh, upbeat and sympathetic. There are so many delightful poems here.
These poems are bound together by a generous, humane spirit which encompasses childbirth, loving memories of her parents and grandparents, gratitude to the generations which fell in two world wars and the vision of an open, welcoming Scotland. Finding the transcendent in the mundane, and vice versa, Kay’s is a clear and resonant voice befitting the public role it now occupies, but one which communicates sentiments of universality while retaining its own distinctiveness and remaining rooted in Kay’s personal experience.