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Humor, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay is part of the equation. Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favorite 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. ""Her grand, embracing spirit should be better known in the U.S."" Booklist
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Jackie Kay was an adopted child of Scottish/Nigerian descent brought up by white parents in Glasgow. She is one of Britain's best-known poets, appearing frequently on radio and TV programmes on poetry and culture. In 2007 Bloodaxe published Darling: New & Selected Poems, which included almost all of her four previous books of poetry from Bloodaxe, The Adoption Papers (1991), Other Lovers (1993), Off Colour (1998) and Life Mask (2005). Her epic poem The Lamplighter, which has been adapted for both radio and stage, is published by Bloodaxe in 2008. Jackie Kay's fiction (from Picador) has been massively popular: her novel Trumpet (1998) and two collections of short stories, Why Don't You Stop Talking? (2002) and Wish I Was Here (2006). She won the Somerset Maugham Award with Other Lovers, the Guardian Fiction Prize for Trumpet, Decibel Writer of the Year for Wish I Was Here and has twice won the Signal Poetry Award for her children's poetry. Her fourth book of poetry for children, Red Cherry, Red, was published by Bloomsbury in 2007. The Adoption Papers is a set text on numerous school and university courses. She lives in Manchester, and was awarded an MBE for services to literature in 2006.
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Identity in the former British Empire is less fluid than here, so when an unmarried Scottish woman gives birth to a child with a Nigerian father, the child is considered black. Adopted by a childless couple of radical politics, Kay grew up with higher awareness of the complexities of racial and cultural identity than perhaps any other prominent poet from her island possesses. Her earliest book, excerpted here, is the stunningly well-wrought verse play The Adoption Papers (1992), whose most endearing scene shows her adoptive mother, a Communist, hiding Marx but leaving out the bust of Bobbie Burns. Like her great Scottish forebear, Kay is a poet of the common person, who in this multicultural age on the British isle is more likely to be a mixed-race woman than a lusty, populist white male. Kay’s work doesn’t stop with autobiography; her later poems embrace other marginalized people in stories of homeless teens and rejected queens, of the aged and the dying. Her grand, embracing spirit should be better known in the U.S. --Patricia Monaghan
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