This generous selection traces profound journeys of adoption, sexuality, racial injustice, and belonging. It travels through the poet’s encounters with her Scottish and Nigerian birth parents, to a piercing farewell to her adoptive, activist parents who brought her up in Glasgow. Infused with a dramatist’s gift for voice, Kay’s poetry is alive with accents, exclamations, jokes, snatches of Scots and Rabbie Burns – and a signature devotional lyricism that is never far from song. Whether channelling political passion, civil rights history, or uproarious icons like Maw Broom and Bette Davis, Kay’s capacity for love, courage, and subversive humour shines through on every page.