Simon S Jackson Biography
Simon Jackson is an award winning writer of poetry, plays, films and music. He was director of Living Arts Space Theatre Company, Manchester and a features writer for gossip magazines in the 1990s. He worked as a musician in Serbia, a journalist in Poland, a history teacher in Egypt and was Head of Drama at Newton International College, Lima, Peru before returning to the UK.
His recent short films with Scottish poets and Billy Bragg have been screened by the BBC and in film festivals around the world, and his last play, Turning to the Camera, was The Guardian's Pick of the Week for Scottish Theatre. Eleven poems from his collection Fragile Cargo (BeWrite Books) have won first place in poetry competitions. He writes and teaches in an international school in Cairo.
Have I told you the tale of Icarus?
How he and his father stepped onto thin air and flew,
flew from captivity?
Imagine the feeling, an air cushion beneath your chest,
...
He planes the maple in long, smooth sweeps
of his joiner’s hands.
Shavings rise like smoke
...
Confined to bed, sheets sticking
like shrink wrap to my fevered skin.
The sun seeps in through the curtains like a stain.
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