Stephen Jackson

"Only a few poets succeed in delivering first class prosaic poetry and Stephen Jackson is one of them. Allow your mind to enter his world of contradictions. Let the borders of his soul enchant you in this spiritual voyage. Go where no one went before and let his introspective poetry ravish your mind. Just sail on, sail on... upon the words and waves of a turbulent sea that is the mind of Stephen Jackson."

Lena Vanelslander
University of Ghent
Author: 'Quills of Fire'


I was trained in Psychology, Logic and Metaphysics at St Andrews - only later as a lecturer and artist. Yet writing has been my passion and my escape since about the age of seven.

Imagine being lucky enough to find yourself landed in a near-fantasy career, and then nearly losing everything? At one point or another I've been author or editor of a dozen books as well as a journalist whose features appeared in The Independent, Time Out, Sunday Telegraph and leading national magazines. I also worked in television films, one of which won Crystal Prize at the Prague Festival; and been cited by BBC Music and Arts as "a writer of the Upper-First Division". My biography of Schubert for Classic FM, which was apparently acclaimed as one of the best of its kind,comes from this period.

And then I fell through the cracks in the pavement.  But it was only in beating my major bout of the Blues in the mid-1990's that I discovered the magical potential of digital imaging to transform our preconceptions of what we imagine the world to be like.

The resulting juxtapositions of my art and poetry have been graciously described as "fascinating and amazing" by a leading US novelist. Elsewhere these visuals found acclaim as "stunning...hauntingly beautiful": the words as "tight and life-enhancing" (John Hegley), "sublime", with a richness and texture comparable to John Donne's.

My books:: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stephen-Jackson/e/B0034Q712W/
My imagery: http://www.artmajeur.com/stephenjacks58/