A. B. Jackson

A.B. Jackson was born in Glasgow in 1965 and studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His first book, Fire Stations (Anvil, 2003), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and a limited edition pamphlet, Apocrypha (Donut Press), was published in 2011. The Wilderness Party (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and his latest collection is The Voyage of St Brendan (Bloodaxe Books, 2021). In 2010 he won first prize in the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University