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Darling New And Selected Poems
Darling New And Selected Poems
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Description: Humour Gender Sexuality Sensuality Identity Racism and Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems from her four Bloodaxe collections The Adoption Papers Other Lovers Off Colour and Life Mask as well as featuring new work some previously uncollected poems and some lively poetry for younger readers. Kay's poems draw on her own life and the lives of others to make a tapestry of voice and communal understanding. The title of her acclaimed short story collection Why Don't You Stop Talking could be a comment on her own poems their urgency of voice and their recognition of the urgency in all voice particularly the need to be heard to have voice. And what voice - the voices of the everyday the voices of jazz the voices of this many - voiced United Kingdom.
Title: Darling New And Selected Poems
Author(s): Kay Jackie
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781852247775
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 10/10/2007
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
Description: Humour Gender Sexuality Sensuality Identity Racism and Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems from her four Bloodaxe collections The Adoption Papers Other Lovers Off Colour and Life Mask as well as featuring new work some previously uncollected poems and some lively poetry for younger readers. Kay's poems draw on her own life and the lives of others to make a tapestry of voice and communal understanding. The title of her acclaimed short story collection Why Don't You Stop Talking could be a comment on her own poems their urgency of voice and their recognition of the urgency in all voice particularly the need to be heard to have voice. And what voice - the voices of the everyday the voices of jazz the voices of this many - voiced United Kingdom.
Title: Darling New And Selected Poems
Author(s): Kay Jackie
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781852247775
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 10/10/2007
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets