A. B. Jackson (poet)

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Andrew Buchanan Jackson is a Scottish poet, born on 19 June 1965, in Glasgow.

His family moved to the town of Bramhall in Cheshire, where Jackson received his primary school education. The family moved again in 1976, to Cupar in Fife, where he attended Bell Baxter High School.^{[citation needed]}

He studied English literature at Edinburgh University between 1983 and 1987,^{[citation needed]} and it was there that he met fellow student Roddy Lumsden.^{[citation needed]} Together they founded and edited Fox: the Edinburgh University Poetry Magazine, featuring undergraduate poetry and guest contributions from established writers, and ran the Edinburgh University Poetry Society between 1986 and 1987.^{[citation needed]}

He has an MSc in Library and Information Studies from the University of Strathclyde^{[citation needed]} and a PhD in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University.^{[citation needed]}

His first book, Fire Stations, won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection in 2003.^{[citation needed]}

His limited edition pamphlet, Apocrypha (Donut Press), was the Poetry Book Society's Pamphlet Choice for summer 2011.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010 he won first prize in the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition for the poem Treasure Island.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015 his second full collection, The Wilderness Party, was published by Bloodaxe Books and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.^{[citation needed]}

His third collection, The Voyage of St Brendan, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2021.^{[citation needed]}

• Snippets From the Powder Room (privately printed pamphlet, 1990)
• Fire Stations (London: Anvil Press, 2003)
• Poems 1985–1995 (privately printed, 50 copies, 2005)
• Apocrypha (London: Donut Press, 2011), limited edition of 250, signed and numbered.
• The Wilderness Party (Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, 2015)
• The Voyage of St Brendan (Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, 2021)

• Author page at Bloodaxe Books
• Two poems from The Voyage of St Brendan on the Poetry Foundation web site
• Poetry International Web feature