Jackie Kay: A Life in Protest

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At the centre of her forthcoming poetry collection, A Life in Protest, Jackie Kay has produced a landmark poem of the same name which charts a powerful and moving poetic journey back through key moments of political activism in her life. As the Book Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, Kay shares this new poem and some of the others in her collection, and looks back over key events in her life as a writer. In conversation with Hannah Lavery.

Supported by the University of Edinburgh’s GENDER.ED Hub

Categories: How We Live, Memoir, Poetry/Spoken Word, Politics, Scottish Interest

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What Makes a Writer

To mark the Book Festival’s 40th year, we have invited five leading writers to join us in a series that explores that most creative and consuming of vocations: the writing life. In this series, Jackie Kay, Val McDermid, Elif Shafak, Bernardine Evaristo, and Ali Smith cast their minds back over their careers and reflect on some of the key moments and influences that have defined them as writers. What compels them to keep going despite the inherent difficulties of the task?…

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