The Gap between two Generations in Selected Poems by Jackie Kay

This research explores how Jackie key presents family relationships and the gap that exists between two generations; that of parents and of children. Despite the fact that there is compassion and love in these relations but still the gap cannot be denied. It is too deep to a degree that it causes a lack of communication. Using humor, native language, and racism, Kay has intensified the struggle between what represents the past and the present. The poems discussed are: ""My Grand-mother's Houses"; "Keeping Orchids"; "Lucozade"; "Bed"; "Divorce"; and "Gap Year".