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October 25, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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I’ll be basking in this for a long time @favlit.org #JackieKay
May Day For Khoning its not abot letting go, but palling clost always PICADOR
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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George Square by Jackie Kay
My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress. ‘What a pair the two of us are!’ my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist, you with your bad eyes, your soft thumbs!’ And off they went, my two parents to march against the war in Iraq, him with his plastic hips. Her with her arthritis, to congregate at George Square, where the banners waved at each other like old friends, flapping, where they’d met for so many marches over their years, for peace on earth, for pity’s sake, for peace, for peace.
August 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Somebody Else by Jackie Kay
If I was not myself, I would be somebody else. But actually I am somebody else. I have been somebody else all my life. It’s no laughing matter going about the place all the time being somebody else: people mistake you; you mistake yourself
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Baggage by Jackie Kay
Dark, the days when the ships came slowly in, Carrying the baggage from the old past, Old love letters, promises long since past. Icy cold it was that winter morning, Thick fog blurred the ship mast The ship humped in like a hurt already cast. You had to go and pick it up. You pushed in, Signed the slip for your wicker chest, And trudged the roads and miles back west, Carrying your past on your back, late morning, Like an animal carries what it needs to its den. The old loch at your side, lapping: Ye ken This – it is not as heavy it might be. You step to your small house in the new light.
February 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Promise
Remember, the time of year when the future appears like a blank sheet of paper a clean calendar, a new chance. On thick white snow You vow fresh footprints then watch them go with the wind’s hearty gust. Fill your glass. Here’s tae us. Promises made to be broken, made to last.
January 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
mireianohosap.bsky.social
#Trumpet #JackieKay I liked the book, its fluidity is very natural, it’s relatable because it talks about feelings between family members in a very genuine way.It has a beauty and a sadness to it. It talks about getting old, the sea, relationships, grief, loss, the presence of absences. Worth a read
June 18, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Everyone gets their own window 😆❤️

I’m tagging ya if you have a Bluesky!
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November 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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A ram sam sam, a ram sam sam
Guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam
Hi kye yay, yippie yi kye yay
Awoo awoo ayee kie chi'
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Photo: #Wordsworth #KennethSteven #UrsulaKLeGuin #JackieKay #LenPennie #ColinBramwell #FernandoPessoa #JohnBurnside #KateAshton #MosabAbuToha #GutterMagazine #PàdraigMacAoidh #IainMacPherson #DonPatterson
September 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Omdat er ook mooie dingen zijn in de wereld. En er wat anders bestaat dan #vuurwerk en een ander doel voor #drones. Wel van een tijd geleden, maar nog even mooi en indrukwekkend. #Scotland #jackieKay youtu.be/5LKKmimrsx8?...
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January 1, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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I am going to EXPLODE. Look at all these cute arts of my ocs. Credits in alt text :33
By Withereye on Toyhouse by Zamolchui on Twitter By jackiekay on Toyhouse By sinplist on Toyhouse
January 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Our #Huddersfield neighbours are putting on a literary spectacular in May. Get yourselves there. I mean #JackieKay!
michellehodgson.bsky.social Michelle Hodgson @michellehodgson.bsky.social · Jan 17
If you're in #Huddersfield #Yorkshire or striking distance, we have some fab @huddlitfest.bsky.social events now up for booking www.huddlitfest.org.uk - if you're further afield, look out for our hybrid and online events. Particularly looking forward to An Evening with #JackieKay 9 May
Author and poet Jackie Kay wearing a stripy long-sleeved T-shirt and brown corduroy dungarees Book cover of May Day by Jackie Kay, cream and red design with black and cream lettering and a silhouette of a figure and a pram
February 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Thank you to everyone who took part in our #CanongateWall competition – these are the winning words by #LizLochhead,
#JackieKay and @kathleenjamie.bsky.social ...

We're off to get the quotes carved into stone!

Updates to follow www.parliament.scot/visit/events-and-exhibitions/canongate-wall
March 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
sarahbroadley.bsky.social
What better way to send them on their way to dreamland than to read 'Coorie Doon', written by the wonderful #JackieKay and beautifully illustrated by #JillCalder.

Pub #WalkersBooks. Officially out on 2nd January 2025.

My review on @mybookcorner.reviews soon!
December 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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"The dead don't go till you do / loved ones / The dead are still here holding our hands"

From 'Darling' by #JackieKay
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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"Remember, the time of year
when the future appears
like a blank sheet of paper
a clean calendar, a new chance."

From 'Promise' by #JackieKay
December 31, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Day 7:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#trumpet
Book cover in gold, black, and white with three circular black and white photos of a person’s hands, neck/collar, and hands playing a trumpet.
February 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Jackie Kay in "Monster: la storia di Ed Gein" (Ep. 1x02, 20252) #JackieKay https://bit.ly/3J7P6aZ
Jackie Kay in "Monster: la storia di Ed Gein" (Ep. 1x02, 20252) - Nudi al cinema
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October 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The wonderful #JackieKay #poet
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Feb 14
Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

—Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
in BANTAM, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2017
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A Lang Promise Jackie Kay Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve, if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst, ahint and afore whit will happen tae us: blind in the present, eyes open to the furore, unkempt or perjink, suddenly puir or poorly, peely-wally or in fine fettle, beld or frosty, calm as a ghoul or in a feery-farry, in dork December or in springy spring weather, doon by the Barrows, or on the Champs-Élysées, at midnight, first licht, whether the mune be roond or crescent, and yer o' soond mind or absent, I'll tak your trusty haun and lead you over the haw – hame, ma darlin. I’ll carry ma lantern, and daur defend ye agin ony foe; and whilst there is breath in me, I'll blaw it intae ye. Fir ye are ma true luve, the bonnie face I see; nichts I fall intae slumber, it’s ye swimming up in all yer guidness and blitheness, yer passion. You’ll be mine, noo, an’ till the end o’ time, ma bonnie lassie, I’ll tak the full guid o’ ye and gie it back, and gie it back tae ye: a furst kiss, a lang promise, time’s gowden ring.
February 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
gillhughes.bsky.social
Oh this is quite the treat on @bbcradio4.bsky.social #SaturdayLive as we speak! #PeterMurray talking about setting up #Yorkshire #Sculpture #Park #YSP (my favourite local place) and #JackieKay (my favourite #poet)
January 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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@valmcdermid.bsky.social great to find you on here ! Can you persuade your pal #JackieKay to move over too? I’m SO missing her cheery tweets
November 22, 2024 at 2:04 PM
michellehodgson.bsky.social
If you're in #Huddersfield #Yorkshire or striking distance, we have some fab @huddlitfest.bsky.social events now up for booking www.huddlitfest.org.uk - if you're further afield, look out for our hybrid and online events. Particularly looking forward to An Evening with #JackieKay 9 May
Author and poet Jackie Kay wearing a stripy long-sleeved T-shirt and brown corduroy dungarees Book cover of May Day by Jackie Kay, cream and red design with black and cream lettering and a silhouette of a figure and a pram
January 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM