Jackie Kay

Biographic Data

ID3672444
NAMEJackie Kay
GIVEN NAMESJackie
FAMILY NAMEKay
SIGNATUREKAY J
AFFILIATIONSMen's Health Forum
ORCID0000-0001-9593-695X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Sociological Review Foundation Public Lecture 2024

    Open AccessJackie Kay, M Benson et al.ARTICLEThe Sociological Review Magazine2024

  • At the Bottom of the Spanish Steps

    Jackie KayARTICLEWasafiri2019

    ‘I am large, I contain multitudes.’ Walt WhitmanWhen you meet your sister in a foreign land,Says Mimi, it is cause for celebration!So, at the bottom of the Spanish steps, she dances,An Igbo dance

  • Constant

    Jackie KayARTICLECallaloo2014

    Constant Jackie Kay (bio) (for M) It is following you and you can’t escape.You cannot hold your head up or be happy.You lose your confidence. You turn a corner: it is there.You cannot step on it; make it disappear.You are feeling many complicated things.Dawn raids strike and you are terrified.You are imprisoned in your own life.Every time you go to the Home Office, there it is.They make you feel inhuman. Every word you speak,A complete lie. An un…

  • Glasgow Snow (for S)

    Jackie KayARTICLECallaloo2014

    Glasgow Snow* (for S) Jackie Kay (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Jackie Kay African Scottish Writer [End Page 263] You were found in the snow in GlasgowOutside the entrance to Central Station.Your journey took you from an Ethiopian prisonTo the forests in France where luck and chanceShowed you not all white men are like the menIn Roots—a film you watched once.The people smugglers didn’t treat you like KizzyOr Kunta Kinte, brought…

  • Push the Week

    Jackie KayARTICLECallaloo2014

    Push the Week Jackie Kay (bio) (for W) If I had cash, I could get some cassava gariDown Great Western Road, shop in Solly’sAnd make some sukuma wiki; stretch the week.But this card don’t buy me African foodOr let me shop in Marie Curie(although they have nice things in there.)Only in the Salvation Army Store.(Where the clothes are a bit of a bore.)You think just because you’re an asylum seekerYou don’t care what you wear?And from eating the wrong…

  • Memories, Dreams and Reflections

    Leila Aboulela, Luis Benítez et al.ARTICLEWasafiri2009Cited by: 1

    Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange

  • Poem

    Jackie KayARTICLEWasafiri2009

  • What Ever

    Jackie KayARTICLEWasafiri2006

  • My Grandmother

    Open AccessJackie KayARTICLEFeminist Review2005

  • The Blazing Sky

    Jackie KayARTICLEWasafiri2004

  • A country walk

    Open AccessJackie KayARTICLECritical Quarterly1994

  • A Book without an Argument

    Open AccessJackie KayARTICLEAdoption & Fostering1994

  • My Grandmother

    Open AccessJackie KayARTICLEFeminist Review1993

  • My Grand Mother

    Jackie KayARTICLEFeminist Review1993

  • The Photo in the Locket. (For Louise)

    Jackie KayARTICLEFeminist Review1991

  • The Photo in the Locket (For Louise)

    Open AccessJackie KayARTICLEFeminist Review1991

  • Journey to Edinburgh

    Open AccessJackie KayARTICLECritical Quarterly1989

  • Poetry

    Jackie KayARTICLEThe Black Scholar1988

  • Happy Endings

    Jackie KayARTICLEFeminist Review1984

  • So you think I am a Mule

    Open AccessJackie KayARTICLEFeminist Review1984Cited by: 2

    So you think I am a Mule? "Where do you come from?" 'I'm from Glasgow.' "Glasgow-?"'Uh huh.Glasgow.'The white face hesitates, the eyebrows raise, the mouth opens then snaps shut incredulous yet too polite to say, outright, liar she tries another manoeuvre "And your parents?" Groan.Not again.It's such a bore.'Glasgow and Fife.' "Oh?" 'Yes.Oh.' Snookered, she wonders where she should go fromhere-"Ah, but you're not pure."'Pure?Pure what?Pure white?…