Create The Life You Want

In this latest episode of Create The Life You Want I chat with Poet, Publisher and Academic, Dr Linda Jackson of Seahorse Publications.

Linda and I take a trip down memory lane and speak about how early life experiences shape us. Linda shares beautiful poetry which depicts the experiences of displaced people and their right to uphold tradition and dignity in the face of the worst of humanity.

This conversation is a belter and so is Linda!

Dr. Linda Jackson is the founding editor of Seahorse Publications,

(www.seahorsepublications.com), her own work includes The Siren Awakes (2020)

described by Stephen Watt ‘witty, poignant, distressing and unshrinking’, Of her

Cabinet Collection, Red Squirrel press, 2021, Graham Fulton comments ‘the gritty

Paisley language and humour, musical rhythms and haunting imagery brings a

world of humanity back to life’, she is the initiator and one of three poets in the

collaboration, Wanderlust Women 3 Poets and Extra Baggage (Seahorse Publications), her

second poetry collection, Siren Calling was published, late 2024. A.C. Clarke

describes the collection as ‘a rollercoaster journey but an exhilarating one’, she is

published in various anthologies, including New Writing Scotland and has been a

creative writing tutor for 35 years. SHE’S SOME WOMAN is the new collection by

the Wanderlust Woman and it will have its official launch in Street Level Gallery on

Sept 14th at 2pm. The book will be out in a limited edition for Linda’s band gig at The

Wyllieum Gallery on July 19th. Tkts available on Event Brite.

‘Ride the poetic coattails of these three poets as they surf and weave stories bringing

a fleet of women into the light they deserved all along’ (Jo Gilbert)

An academic in ‘another’ life, her doctoral work was on literature, (Virginia Woolf)

and philosophy, (Friedrich Nietzsche).

In 2021, Linda founded a multi-cultural charity, SCAP. See www.scapscotland.com,

This charity has a publishing arm and offers opportunities to the asylum-seeking

community and other groups who might find access to the arts difficult.

Linda is a musician who has toured widely in her life, and has released 6 CDs of

songs, the most recent being SIRENS. Most songs were written by her and some

wonderful co-musicians.

See www.lindajaxson.com