{"product_id":"9781469167602","title":"Dead People on Holiday","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The living”, it has been said, “are dead people on holiday”. This book is a ten-year testimony to one man’s living death, concluding in acceptance and at least the chance of a return to hope, love and a new life. The poetry here pulls apart the inner sadness of encroaching age and irredeemable failure, with a candour which for most of us has to be kept stifled, silent, perhaps barely even thought. But this is a book which surmounts despair; and for the narrator here as much as for anyone else: if these are the ashes of a failed life, they are the ashes from which a phoenix can rise. And yes, someday it will. Stephen Jackson’s fusion of his own poetry with digital imagery has been acclaimed as “hauntingly beautiful...tight, life-affirming”. His account has been called “fascinating and amazing”: with a texture of writing comparable to John Donne’s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175742816496,"sku":"9781469167602","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469167602_p0.jpg?v=1763698728","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469167602","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}