Wednesday 20 October

Jackie Kay: Red Dust Road

Library Theatre, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HQ

7.30 – 8.45pm

Sponsored by Newman University College, Birmingham

Jackie Kay realised at a tender age that her skin was a different colour to that of her beloved mum and dad. Tracing and finding her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, in later life led her on a journey both painful and enlightening.

Born and brought up in Scotland, Jackie has published five collections of poetry for adults – The Adoption Papers (winner of a Forward Prize, a Saltire Award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award) Other Lovers (which won the Somerset Maugham Award), Off Colour, Life Mask and Darling: New and Selected Poems.

Red Dust Road is a memoir, taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond Revelatory, redemptive and courageous, it is a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.

 

Box Office: 0121 303 2323 or BOOK ONLINE



In association with The Drum and SHOUT Festival.