Mayday | Jackie Kay

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Composite image of Jackie Kay (right) and the front cover of her book ‘Mayday’ (left). Jackie is a mixed race woman (Black African and white) is her early 60’s. She has short dark brown curly hair. She is wearing an orange scarf and a black long sleaved zipper jumper. She is also wearing red lipstick and black dangling earrings. Text from the front cover of her book reads ‘Jackie Kay / Mayday’. There is an illustration of a person with a speaker next to a pram. There is a red light coming from the speaker that is illuminating the words ‘Mayday’.

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One of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay reads from new collection May Day. These poems explore decades of political activism, accompanying her parents’ Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s/90s to the present day and Black Lives Matter. Kay brings to life influential figures including Paul Robeson as well as sharing poems of grief and love following the loss of her parents.

With support from poets Danaé Wellington and Beth Davies.

Tickets £10/£8
The Montgomery Theatre

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Mayday | Jackie Kay

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