Jackie's latest collection of poetry is full of the dramatic power associated with her work, and plenty of music too. She explores the theme of identity in poems about an older generation, especially grandmothers, about the old days and the new days, and places the poet associates with these people, who live dreamlike, isolated existences, geographically, but also in the memory. Nature and the elements play a big role too: trees, the moon, the sea, fire. Jackie's style is both muscular and lyrical - one moment witty, the next melancholic, or gently surreal - and in this brilliant new collection, her poems are infused with warmth and colour: in particular, the colour RED.

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Jackle Kay was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Glasgow, but now lives in Manchester with her son. She is an award-winning poet for both adults and children, having won the Signal Award for The Frog Who Dreamed She Was An Opera Singer (Bloomsbury Children's), the Saltire and Forward Prizes for The Adoption Papers, and the Somerset Maugham Award for Other Lovers (Bloodaxe). Trumpet, her first novel for Picador, won the Guardian Award and was shortlisted for the Impac Award; it received rave reviews.