This document provides an overview and review of the poetry book "Dead People on Holiday" by Stephen Jackson. It describes the book as a testimony to one man's living death over ten years that concludes with acceptance and a chance at rebirth. The reviewer calls Jackson's poetry candid yet life-affirming, with a richness comparable to John Donne's work. They encourage readers to let Jackson's introspective poetry take them on a spiritual voyage into his soul and world of contradictions.

1. Are you ready to meet the
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.
Most good poetry is short and to the point. 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 Author: Quills of Fire University of Ghent
ISBN 978-1-4500-3969-7