Scotland's Makar

Our national poet, Jackie Kay.

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Red Cherry Red by Jackie Kay

A powerful poetry collection full of the drama, musicality and lyricism that Jackie Kay is famed for.

The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay

The story of a black girl’s adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter.

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Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay

£9.99

Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond; a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.

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Trumpet by Jackie Kay

£8.99

The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.

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The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay

£9.99

A journey into the dark heart of Britain’s legacy in the slave trade; first produced as a play, on the page it reads as a profound and tragic multi-layered poem

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Darling : New and Selected Poems by Jackie Kay

£12.00

By Scotland’s Makar.

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Fiere by Jackie Kay

£9.99

By Scotland’s Makar.

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Bantam by Jackie Kay

£9.99

Jackie Kay’s first collection of poetry as Scottish Makar.

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The Empathetic Store by Jackie Kay

£6.00

Worlds known and worlds imagined: a batch of new poems by Jackie Kay, from her own empathetic store, catching her at her typical best – warm, lyrical, affectionate, funny, fiercely political and often profound.