May Day by Jackie Kay
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2024 #metoo Irina Sadovina

Irina Sadovina

and departure

is a fever dream: the borders between past and present

circus ring of elastic sanity

under the constellations of aircraft holding patterns

May Day by Jackie Kay<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2024</b> #metoo Irina SadovinaMay Day is the long awaited new poetry collection from one of our best loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kays childhood, accompanying her parents Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti racist movements of the 80s and 90s, up to the present day when a global pandemic intersects with the urgency