Description
| Product ID: | 9781509864836 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | May Day |
| Authors: | Author: Jackie Kay |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Scotland |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The long-awaited collection from one of Britain’s finest poets, and a chronicle of activism in the UK over six decades. <p><i>May Day </i>is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-04-25 |