Darling: New and Selected Poems Jackie Kay

A heedful exploration of Jackie Kay’s corpus, whether prose, poetry, or nonfiction, allows for identifying patterns and linguistic mechanisms employed by the Scottish poet, who alludes to thematic preoccupations such as race, sexuality, and...

The Equilibria of Humor and Solemnity in Jackie Kay's Pain

Within a predominantly autobiographical collection of works, Jackie Kay could not be less dubious about her references to past and present personal experiences. No matter the conditions...

Jackie Kay once wrote in an article for ‘The Guardian’ newspaper that ‘being adopted is like having a double life. Being a writer is like having a double life. You live in two worlds at once…when you’re adopted and you trace your original parents,...