Fire Stations

Awarded the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2003
 
One of ten poets chosen for Anvil New Poets 3 (2001), A.B. Jackson was singled out by John Greening in Poetry Review for his 'demanding and ambitious work: direct, sharp in manner, with an intellectual edge, a valedictory quality.' Fire Stations is his first collection.
 
Born in Glasgow in 1965, Andrew Buchanan Jackson grew up in Bramhall, Cheshire, later receiving his secondary education in Cupar, Fife. He studied English Literature at Edinburgh University and now works in Glasgow.
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Fire Stations

Awarded the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2003
 
One of ten poets chosen for Anvil New Poets 3 (2001), A.B. Jackson was singled out by John Greening in Poetry Review for his 'demanding and ambitious work: direct, sharp in manner, with an intellectual edge, a valedictory quality.' Fire Stations is his first collection.
 
Born in Glasgow in 1965, Andrew Buchanan Jackson grew up in Bramhall, Cheshire, later receiving his secondary education in Cupar, Fife. He studied English Literature at Edinburgh University and now works in Glasgow.
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Fire Stations

Fire Stations

by A.B. Jackson
Fire Stations

Fire Stations

by A.B. Jackson

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Awarded the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2003
 
One of ten poets chosen for Anvil New Poets 3 (2001), A.B. Jackson was singled out by John Greening in Poetry Review for his 'demanding and ambitious work: direct, sharp in manner, with an intellectual edge, a valedictory quality.' Fire Stations is his first collection.
 
Born in Glasgow in 1965, Andrew Buchanan Jackson grew up in Bramhall, Cheshire, later receiving his secondary education in Cupar, Fife. He studied English Literature at Edinburgh University and now works in Glasgow.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780856463631
Publisher: Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date: 09/01/2004
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author


Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1965, Andrew Buchanan Jackson completed a postgraduate MSc degree in 2000, and now works at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing.

Table of Contents

196511
Feathers12
David Hume Considers the Moon13
Night Work14
The Christmas Pet15
Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh16
The Sleeping Gypsy17
Parting on Henry Street18
Schopenhauer's Porcupines20
Stammer22
Stratheden23
Maryhill Road24
X25
Blackbird35
Phineas Gage36
Journey37
A Ring38
The Dancing Serpent40
Acoustic Mineral Wool42
The Blue Nile43
July Fugue44
The Temptation of Saint Anthony45
Missing49
Saturday Night50
Beast of Burden51
Lauder's Bar52
Filing53
The Silken Road54
The Chemical Wedding55
In Memory of R.D. Laing56
Star59
Notes61
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