{"id":49333,"date":"2016-10-07T20:21:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49333"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:28:44","slug":"jackie-kay-announces-makars-tour-of-all-the-scottish-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49333","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Kay announces makar&#8217;s tour of all the Scottish islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/oct\/07\/jackie-kay-announces-makars-tour-of-all-the-scottish-islands\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Jackie Kay announces makar&#8217;s tour of all the Scottish islands<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libby_brooks\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Libby Brooks<\/strong><\/a>, Scotland Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>The poet has revealed plans for \u2018an odyssey\u2019 that will take in overlooked parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotland\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> and form the basis of a long poem about the country<\/p>\n<p>As the UK lurches towards xenophobia, it is a writer\u2019s responsibility to \u201ctell the time\u201d, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/mar\/15\/jackie-kay-becomes-the-new-makar-scotlands-national-poet\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland\u2019s national poet Jackie Kay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kay, whose complex relationship with her Scottish identity provides inspiration for much of her work, warned that poets should not shy away from addressing current and acute political divisions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/oct\/07\/jackie-kay-announces-makars-tour-of-all-the-scottish-islands\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Kay announces makar&#8217;s tour of all the Scottish islands The Guardian 2016-10-07 Libby Brooks, Scotland Correspondent The poet has revealed plans for \u2018an odyssey\u2019 that will take in overlooked parts of Scotland and form the basis of a long poem about the country As the UK lurches towards xenophobia, it is a writer\u2019s responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,10],"tags":[1587,2892,153,2103],"class_list":["post-49333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-jackie-kay","tag-libby-brooks","tag-scotland","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51616,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49333\/revisions\/51616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}