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Writing Scotland - A journey through Scotland's Literature

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Jackie Kay
1961 -
Jackie Kay
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Primary

A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets Sheba, 1984

Chiaroscuro Methuen, 1986

Gay Sweatshop: Four Plays and a Company (includes 'Twice Over') Methuen, 1989

Kay, Agard, D'Aguiar, Berry (audio-cassette) Bluefoot Cassette (British Library National Sound Archive), 1990

That Distance Apart Turret, 1991

The Adoption Papers Bloodaxe, 1991

Twice Through the Heart English National Opera, 1991

Two's Company Blackie, 1992

Other Lovers Bloodaxe, 1993

Hearsay: Performance Poems Plus (audio-cassette) 57 Production, 1994

Three Has Gone Blackie, 1994

Penguin Modern Poets 8 (Merle Collins, Jackie Kay and Grace Nichols) Penguin, 1996

Bessie Smith Absolute, 1997

Off Colour Bloodaxe, 1998

Sick Bag Bloodaxe, 1998

Teeth (audio-cassette) 57 Production, 1998

Trumpet Picador, 1998

The Frog Who Dreamed She was an Opera Singer Bloomsbury, 1999

Strawgirl Macmillan, 2002

Why Don't You Stop Talking Picador, 2002

International Connections: New Plays for Young People (contributor) Faber and Faber, 2003

New and Selected Poems Bloodaxe, 2004

North: The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award 2004 (editor) Polygon 2004

Borders Picador 2005

Secondary

74-75: The Women's Forum: Women in Scottish Literature
Chapman Magazine

Four Women Poets (Cambridge Literature S.)
Judith Baxter Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1996

Contemporary Scottish Women Writers
Aileen Christianson and Alison Lumsden, eds., Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh 2000

The History of Scottish Women's Writing
Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, eds Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1997

Women Writers
Margaret Oliphant
Willa Muir
Catherine Carswell
Muriel Spark
Liz Lochhead
Jackie Kay
A L Kennedy