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Jackie Kay’s Quest For Her Roots – Theresa Muñoz Scottish Review of Books Volume 6, Issue 3 (2010-08-12) Theresa Muñoz Adopted at birth, Jackie Kay discovered neither of her birth parents were who she’d thought they’d be, her new memoir recalls. “If you have skin my colour” writes Jackie Kay in her memoir Red Dust…
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The Adoption Papers Bloodaxe Books 1991 64 pages 21.6 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm Paperback ISBN: 978-1852241568 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University
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The “Telling Part”: Reimagining Racial Recognition in Jackie Kay’s Adoptee Search Narratives Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2015) pages 277-296 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpu041 Pamela Fox, Professor of English Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. This article examines Jackie Kay’s earliest and renowned autobiographical poetic text, The Adoption Papers (1991), in relation to her latest narrative…
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University of Salford installs new Chancellor, Professor Jackie Kay MBE University of Salford Salford, United Kingdom Friday, 2015-05-01 The University celebrated the official installation of it’s sixth Chancellor, renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay MBE, at a grand ceremony in Peel Hall on Wednesday 29 April 2015. Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated in a ceremony…
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University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor
University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2015-05-09 Charlotte Dobson, Social Affairs Reporter Prof Jackie Kay MBE appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Salford Professor Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated at a ceremony attended by fellow celebrated writer Jeanette Winterson…
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“Love Letter to My Ancestors:” Representing Traumatic Memory in Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 36, Number 2 (December 2014) pages 161-182 Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Associate Professor of English European University Cyprus, Engomi, Nicosia-Cyprus Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter, published in 2008, was first broadcast on BBC radio in…
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Appointment of new Chancellor University of Salford, Manchester News 2014-10-17 The distinguished award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, Jackie Kay MBE, has been appointed as our new Chancellor. Jackie, who takes up the position immediately, takes over from the University’s previous Chancellor, Dr Irene Khan who stepped down earlier this year after her five-year…
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Award-winning author and poet Jackie Kay appointed as University of Salford’s new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2014-10-19 Dean Kirby Jackie Kay MBE succeeds Dr Irene Khan at the University of Salford, who stepped down earlier this year after her five-year term came to an end An award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays…
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Jackie Kay on reading out an anti-racist poem at a football ground The Guardian 2012-10-26 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Jackie Kay readies for an experiment – being a poet on Sheffield United’s pitch and helping to kick racism out of football On Monday I’m going to be pitching my anti-racist poem…
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Missing faces The Guardian 2007-03-23 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University As the United Kingdom marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade tomorrow, Jackie Kay challenges fellow Scots to acknowledge their forebears’ part in this shameful history and reflects on the ordeal suffered by her ancestors We’re perhaps over-fond…