Jackie Kay
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The Scottish poet’s tribute to the Antiguan-American author’s ‘fearless’ coming-of-age novel Annie John
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The poet laureate of Scotland and the author of The Vanishing Half talk about featuring on ‘black reading lists’, the fear of wasting time and that tricky second novel
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Scotland’s makar recalls being taunted and beaten up by older boys as an eight-year-old and reflects on a much-changed country
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Major names including Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay and father-and-son poets Ian and Andrew McMillan to document outbreak in verse
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Other lives: Political organiser and activist who stood for parliament four times as a Communist party candidate
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The first black woman to win the Booker prize argues that a revolution is sweeping through British publishing. But can it lead to lasting change?
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The acclaimed poet and author introduces favourite authors who ‘open up the world to you and give you the world back’
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2 out of 5 stars.Lynette Linton’s debut as artistic director is a musical revival of an undramatic piece about the dilemmas of four women
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2 out of 5 stars.Sasha Frost sparkles as a curious and vulnerable Kay searching for her birth parents, but this unfocused production fails to capture the intimacy of the soul-searching memoir
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When Scotland’s national poet travelled to Nigeria to ask her birth father if he ever thought of her, he said no. Does it hurt to put this on stage? And should the next ‘makar’ be on £30,000?
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When US poet laureate Tracy K Smith and Jackie Kay, Scotland’s equivalent, met for the first time, they had almost too much to talk about
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Pakistani-born British poet declines ‘huge honour’ as speculation switches to remaining contenders to succeed Carol Ann Duffy
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Letters: As we approach International Dawn Chorus Day, Alison Steadman, Grayson Perry and 76 others say nature is falling silent and the UK must take a leading role in its recovery
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In 2004, Roberts’s wartime diaries were discovered in a Glasgow attic. A century after he went to war, Scotland’s makar remembers his contribution
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Carol Ann Duffy will finish her decade in the role in May, but the long process of choosing the next appointee begins this weekend
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Poems set in stone mark Brontë legacy in West Riding, between the sisters’ birthplace and the parsonage where they grew up
Book of the day Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay review – a potent blues brew