Poet Jackie Kay performs a selection of poems from her collection Selected Poems 1991-2026 at HOME Theatre.
Jackie Kay is performing at HOME on Sunday 25 October, reading from her new collection Selected Poems 1991-2026. It's a retrospective that pulls from more than three decades of her work, so the evening will draw on poems, storytelling and reflection from across her career rather than just the new material.
Kay is one of the most respected literary voices in Britain, and she's worked across poetry, novels and short stories. Born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father and adopted by a white Scottish couple, she's built much of her work around questions of family, ancestry and identity. Her Forward Prize-winning collection The Adoption Papers established her as a distinctive voice in British poetry, followed by Fiere, Bantam and May Day. Beyond the poetry, there's the novel Trumpet and the memoir Red Dust Road, which traces her search for her birth parents and her journey to Nigeria.
She's also held a few roles that place her right at the centre of the Scottish and Manchester literary scenes: she was Scotland's Makar, the country's national poet, from 2016 to 2021, is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Salford, and is a Patron of the Manchester Literature Festival. Jeanette Winterson once called her 'the people's poet'.
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The evening runs from 7:30pm to 8:45pm at HOME (Theatre), 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN. Tickets are £17, or £29 if you want a copy of Selected Poems 1991-2026 included, which usually retails for £14.99.
