‘Dead People on Holiday’
“The living”, it has been said,
“are dead people on holiday”. This book
is a ten-year testimony to one man’s living death, concluding in acceptance and
at least the chance of a return to hope, love and a new life. The poetry here pulls apart the inner
sadness of encroaching age and irredeemable failure, with a candour which for
most of us has to be kept stifled, silent, perhaps barely even thought.
But this is a book which
surmounts despair; and for the narrator here as much as for anyone else: if
these are the ashes of a failed life, they are the ashes from which a phoenix
can rise. And yes, someday it
will.
Stephen Jackson’s fusion of his
own poetry with digital imagery has been acclaimed as “hauntingly beautiful...tight,
life-affirming”. His account has been
called “fascinating and amazing”: with a texture of writing comparable to John
Donne’s.
This book is available to order through Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble from early September 2010. The ISBN is (for softcover) 078-1-4500-3968-0 or (for the hardback) 978-1-4500-3969-7.
See our promo site at www.DeadPeopleOnHoliday.com
