An Evening with Jackie Kay

Celebrate one of the nation’s best-loved poets, Jackie Kay, with her new poetry collection, May Day: a chorus of protest songs tracing her childhood in Glasgow, the women’s rights and gay liberation campaigns of the 1980s to the Black Lives Matter movement of the present day. 

In 2016, Jackie Kay became the third modern Makar, the National Poet for Scotland. Her writing includes the poetry collections, Fiere and Bantam; a memoir, Red Dust Road, and the Guardian Fiction Prize winning novel, Trumpet. May Day is a Poetry Book Society recommended book for Summer 2024. 

In this special event produced in partnership with the Poetry Book Society, poet Romalyn Ante FRSL will read from her PBS recommended collection AGIMAT. Romalyn’s debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and in 2021, she was awarded the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship.

Chaired by poet and PBS Selector, Jo Clement.

If you have booked a live-stream ticket for this event, you can access the live-stream here. You will be asked to log in with the details you used to book your ticket. It will be available to watch back until 31 October.