Life Mask by Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay's Life Mask is about love, loss, secrets and mistaken identity. These searching poems reveal the many ways people hide from each other and from themselves. They show how appearances are deceptive, and how many faces we make up in one face. Unpeeling the mask, she confronts her own past and her fears: meeting her father for the first time in Nigeria and ending a long-term relationship. Masks are about masquerade, camouflage, trickery, hypocrisy and stealth. They connect with running away, with how we conceal our feelings and hide from the truth. Jackie Kay's Life Mask poems penetrate the nature of love, showing how love is a kind of belief, and loss of love involves a loss of faith. But then they open out: coming clean, they blow their cover, drop the mask, give themselves away: the truth is often hooded or disguised, and honesty itself can be a kind of a mask. Life Mask isn't only concerned with love and loss but also with light and renewal, with honesty, assertion and being yourself, and with moving on to find a new sense of self-belief. Life Mask is now out of print but all the poems from the collection are included in Darling: New & Selected Poems (2007).
Warm, tough, painful and often very funny poems-- Fleur Adcock * Sunday Times *
Witty, risky, lyrical, teasing; rich, strong, socially questioning. -- Ruth Padel * Independent *
Witty, risky, lyrical, teasing; rich, strong, socially questioning. -- Ruth Padel * Independent *
Jackie Kay was an adopted child of Scottish/Nigerian descent brought up by white parents in Glasgow. She is one of Britain's best-known poets, appearing frequently on radio and TV programmes on poetry and culture. In 2007 Bloodaxe published Darling: New & Selected Poems, which included almost all of her four previous books of poetry from Bloodaxe, The Adoption Papers (1991), Other Lovers (1993), Off Colour (1998) and Life Mask (2005). Her epic poem The Lamplighter, adapted for both radio and stage, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008, was followed by Fiere (Picador, 2011), The Empathetic Store (Mariscat Press, 2015) and Bantam (Picador, 2017). Jackie Kay's fiction and non-fiction (from Picador) has been massively popular: her novel Trumpet (1998), three collections of short stories, Why Don't You Stop Talking? (2002), Wish I Was Here (2006) and Reality, Reality (2012), and her memoir Red Dust Road (2010), which won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011. She won the Somerset Maugham Award with Other Lovers, the Guardian Fiction Prize for Trumpet, Decibel Writer of the Year for Wish I Was Here and has twice won the Signal Poetry Award for her children's poetry. Her fourth book of poetry for children, Red Cherry, Red, was published by Bloomsbury in 2007. The Adoption Papers is a set text on numerous school and university courses. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and co-edited the anthologies Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe Books / Newcastle University, 2012) with James Procter and Gemma Robinson, and The Mighty Stream: Poems in celebration of Martin Luther King (Bloodaxe Books / Newcastle University, 2017) with Carolyn Forche. In 2014 she was appointed Chancellor of the University of Salford, and in 2016 she was named as the new Makar, National Poet of Scotland. She lives in Manchester, and has been awarded an MBE and an OBE for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852246914 |
| ISBN 10 | 185224691X |
| Titel | Life Mask |
| Autor | Jackie Kay |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2005-04-28 |
| Seitenanzahl | 64 |
| Preise | Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2005 |
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