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Kay Adshead

A life's writing, in the order it was written.

Kay Adshead seated before a painted brick wall bearing a mural portrait.
1987
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Thatcher's Women

by Kay Adshead

Thatcher's Women was the name given to women from the north of England, who responding to widespread redundancies travelled to London in the 1980s to work as part-time prostitutes, taking money back to pay rent, feed, and clothe their children.

1989
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Fears and Miseries of the Third Term: After the Party

by Kay Adshead

Fears and Miseries of the Third Term was a highly targeted political satire performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1989 (though written/developed in the wake of the 1987 UK General Election). It was a series of short, interconnected playlets by several authors. After the Party is a 1987 short, satirical short play for Fears and Miseries of the Third Term. It was performed at venues including the Liverpool Playhouse and the Young Vic, and later adapted for Channel 4's Club X a late-night, avant-garde arts programme.

1993
1995
1996
1998
2002
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Hanging

Hanging

by Kay Adshead

A radio play. In a wood beside a railway line, a man is found hanging from a tree — and three very different women, each shaped by an unresolved relationship with him, claim him as their own.

2003
2005
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Bites

by Kay Adshead

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Bones

by Kay Adshead

2009
2010
Poem

The first line of the poem stands in for an image on the timeline —

Sample Short Poem

by Kay Adshead

2012
1993
2013
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2018
Long poem
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Sample Long Poem

by Kay Adshead

A placeholder long poem, individually downloadable.

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2025
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