BUSINESS life: Chris works to put poetry in motion; Redundancy leads to verse venture.Byline: COLIN LEWIS Business Editor CHRIS JACKSON Chris Jackson may refer to:
tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: Tinkle tin·kle v. tin·kled, tin·kling, tin·kles v.intr. 1. To make light metallic sounds, as those of a small bell. 2. Informal To urinate. v.tr. 1. Tinkle. But it wasn't until 20 years later that he turned his rhyming rhyme also rime n. 1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. 2. a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. b. talent into a money spinner. He has launched a personalised Adj. 1. personalised - made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual; "personalized luggage"; "personalized advice" individualised, individualized, personalized verse-writing and printing service - aimed particularly at the lucrative wedding market around Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. He has a large stock of well over 100 personally-penned poems for clients to choose from and can provide them ready printed on invitation cards, menus and other event stationery. And for an extra consideration he will create a personalised poem exclusive to the couple for their big day which "adds that extra special touch". "Writing poetry was always a huge stigma as a boy - mentioning that you write poetry after rugby training was never going to impress my mates!" said Chris. "So I kept it private until only a few months ago. A close friend recently asked if I could write a "thinking of you" type poem for his sister-in- law who was quite ill. I think he was quite taken aback about how accurately my words reflected the situation - but in a friendly way he still finds it funny that I can write so sensitively." Born in Evesham, Chris until recently lived in London where he worked in catalogue marketing for Marks & Spencer. But he seized the chance of an attractive redundancy package from M & S to fulfil his lifelong urge to use his poetry skills constructively and set up his own venture, Littlepoems Wedding Stationery. And he also decided to invest in his own printing machine to produce his own hand-printed stationery. He says he has always had a compulsion COMPULSION. The forcible inducement to au act. 2. Compulsion may be lawful or unlawful. 1. When a man is compelled by lawful authority to do that which be ought to do, that compulsion does not affect the validity of the act; as for example, when a court of to write, but has no idea where the inspiration comes from. "It's funny that although my family and other people have always been very impressed by my work, no one can really understand where it comes from - and that includes me. "Sometimes certain events inspire me to write a poem - as with September 11 in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and experiences of family and friends, but most of the time I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. where my ideas and the words come from - it is as though the poem is already written in my head." CAPTION(S): WORDS APART: Chris Jackson at the Shakespeare statue in Stratford |
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