Author: KAY, JACKIE
Poetry by individual poets
Published on 31 December 1991 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 64 pages
216 x 140 x 5 | 114g
Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. The Adoption Papers won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2022 The Adoption Papers was selected as one of ten books representing the 1990s in The Big Jubilee Read, a celebration of great books from across the Commonwealth to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, one of only three poetry collections out of 70 books on the list.