Dead People on Holiday

The living they say are dead people on holiday. Stephen Jackson's Dead People on Holiday is a ten-year testimony to one man's living death concluding in acceptance and the chance of a kind of rebirth. The poetry here pulls apart the melancholy of encroaching age and irredeemable failure with a candour which for most of us has to be kept stifled silent perhaps barely even thought. Yet this is a book to surmount despair. If these are life's ashes from them a phoenix can rise. Tight and life-affirming this poetry has been called; with a richness comparable to John Donne's.. The book is also profusely illustrated with the author's own digital imagery acclaimed as stunning and hauntingly beautiful.