Jackie Kay: Reality, Reality

Jackie Kay: Reality, Reality

Thursday 11 October 2012, 7.30 ? 9pm.

Birmingham Cathedral, Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 2QB

?10 / ?6

Sponsored by Newman University College, Birmingham.

In fifteen extraordinary stories, Jackie Kay celebrates the richness and power of dream-life to inspire, to repair, and to make real.

The wonderful novelist and poet Jackie Kay is also a brilliant writer of short stories. Her new collection of stories,?Reality, Reality, plays with the theme?of reality, but also focuses on the lives of real people, often those who go unnoticed, who are coping with loss, desperation or delusion. Heart-breaking but at turns laugh-out-loud funny, these are interi
Jackie Kay will give our second annual ?address from the pulpit? in Birmingham Cathedral, following Will Self?s engaging homily on walking last year. She will read some of the fifteen stories from?Reality, Reality,?and offer her own commentary on the points where the physicality of our lives blurs into an alternative reality and sometimes into a new awakening or spirituality.or monologues that show Jackie?s extraordinary ear for how we speak and what we really mean.

Jackie was born in Glasgow. She has published novels, collections of poetry and short stories and memoir. In 2006 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies, and she has written widely for stage and television.

The evening will be introduced by Dean Catherine Ogle of Birmingham Cathedral, and chaired by Jonathan Davidson, Chief Executive of Writing West Midlands.

To book please call the BOX on 0121 248 4455 or click?here.

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