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] His first book, Fire Stations, won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection in 2003.
[citation needed] In 2010 he won first prize in the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition for the poem Treasure Island.
[citation needed] His third collection, The Voyage of St Brendan, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2021.