Jackie Kay on putting her adoption on stage " and getting a pay rise for her successor
When Scotland's national poet travelled to Nigeria to ask her birth father if he ever thought of her, he said no. Does it hurt to put this on stage? And should the next 'makar' be on £30,000? Before Jackie Kay was a writer, she was a character. "When you're adopted," she explains over lunch in a Glasgow cafe, "you come with a story." Her adoptive mother Helen " fascinated by her possible origins " encouraged young…
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