May Day essays Now Csilla keeps her head

Now Csilla keeps her head down

Before We Were Trans invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in welcoming ways

but with their only case so far left unsolved

New Orleans may see another massacre

joyous and horrifying

May Day essays Now Csilla keeps her headMay 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