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?...
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.
#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#JackieKay
George Square by Jackie Kay
Shona's parents sing her to sleep; as she drifts off all manner of thoughts and then dreams slide past in a beautifully evocative story told in Scots by #JackieKay. With warm and enticing illustrations by #JillCalder this is a delightful book
@walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @lindseyfraser.bsky.social
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
#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#JackieKay
Somebody Else by Jackie Kay
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
May Day For Khoning its not abot letting go, but palling clost always PICADOR
I’ll be basking in this for a long time @favlit.org #JackieKay
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.
#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#JackieKay
Baggage by Jackie Kay
Canongate Wall is one of my favourite places - a wall of amazing words, so many of which stop you in your tracks.
Your chance to choose more of these from three of our best - all past Makars #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie
The wonderful #JackieKay #poet
Our #Huddersfield neighbours are putting on a literary spectacular in May. Get yourselves there. I mean #JackieKay!
"The dead don't go till you do / loved ones / The dead are still here holding our hands"
From 'Darling' by #JackieKay
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.
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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#jackiekay
#fiction
#trumpet
Showcard advertising the Coorie Doon event with Jackie Kay and Jill Calder & advising of it being rescheduled to Saturday evening because of today's dangerous storm conditions
This evening's event has been rescheduled for tomorrow (Sat 25th), as we all Coorie Doon with a cuppa and book to hide from the storm!
#StormEowyn #books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #JackieKay #JillCalder #CoorieDoon
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
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
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)
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.
#Poetry
#Poem
#JackieKay
Promise
"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
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!
@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
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC Radio 3's #RoundMidnight
Jackie Kay:
🎵 Nina Simone at Ronnie Scotts 1983
#BBCRadio3 #JackieKay
