co-founder and poet Victoria Bennett after her two-year-old son was diagnosed with type one diabetes, the calendar saw a male poet paired with a female photographer for each month of the year (plus one extra month "for all the things you never have time to do"). The duo were then asked to interpret a poem donated for the calendar by a female poet, from Wendy Cope to Penelope Shuttle, Moniza Alvi and Pascale Petite.
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Naked poets bare all for calendar of male muses
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The award-winning Scottish poet Jackie Kay, who was adopted as a baby, recently made contact with her birth sisters for the first time – thanks in part to an appearance on the Guardian's books podcast.
Although Kay has known of her two half-sisters' existence for years, her birth mother had never told her other children of the daughter she conceived with a Nigerian student and gave up for adoption to a white couple from Glasgow at birth. Kay first traced her mother in 1988, three weeks before her own son was born, meeting her for the first time in 1991 and three more times over the next 20 years.
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Guardian books podcast helps Jackie Kay to meet birth sisters
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