{"id":7007,"date":"2010-05-06T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7007"},"modified":"2010-05-06T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:32:10","slug":"jackie-kay-review-of-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7007","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Kay (Review of Darling)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aestheticamagazine.com\/gfx\/19kay.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Kay (Review of Darling)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aestheticamagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Aesthetica Magazine<\/a><br \/>\nIssue 19 (2007-10-01)<br \/>\npage 10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachel Hazelwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/staff\/profile\/jackie.kay\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Kay<\/a> is one of the most prolific and insightful poets currently writing in the UK today. At a time when too many people frequently describe the form as being \u201cin decline\u201d and thought of as an \u201cexclusive club\u201d, Kay writes poems that are accessible, yet deeply involved and involving. Her poetry embraces the reader, and at the same time it challenges them to really think about what she is saying. Her work covers weighty themes such as gender, ethnicity, racism and cultural difference, and presents them in ways that leave you marvelling at her command of language, and at the same time feeling as though you have gained valuable insight into subjects fraught with social and emotional complexities. As far as Kay is concerned: \u201cAll you need is a way of reading poetry so while you\u2019re listening, you are also reading; and that you listen to poetry like you might listen to a piece of music. You actually don\u2019t need to understand it in the first instance; you\u2019re listening to enjoy and experience language, not to worry about it.\u00a0 Once you\u2019re past worrying you can actually return again and again to the same poem, and that\u2019s what I think is wonderful about poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kay\u2019s latest work, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3942\" target=\"_blank\">Darling<\/a><\/em>, published in October 2007, brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems from her four Bloodaxe collections, The<br \/>\n<em>Adoption Papers<\/em>, <em>Other Lovers<\/em>, <em>Off Colour<\/em> and <em>Life Mask<\/em>, as well as featuring new work, some previously uncollected poems, and some lively poetry for younger readers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aestheticamagazine.com\/gfx\/19kay.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Kay (Review of Darling) Aesthetica Magazine Issue 19 (2007-10-01) page 10 Rachel Hazelwood Jackie Kay is one of the most prolific and insightful poets currently writing in the UK today. At a time when too many people frequently describe the form as being \u201cin decline\u201d and thought of as an \u201cexclusive club\u201d, Kay writes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,10,25],"tags":[2913,1587,2914],"class_list":["post-7007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-aesthetica-magazine","tag-jackie-kay","tag-rachel-hazelwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007","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=7007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}