Welcome to Jack Withers.com
Jack is a singer and a poet of vision, a wordsmith who delights with his craft. He is also a stalwart fighter, unyielding in his determination to... 'Speak out and even shout out against an injustice and artifice that's cruel, banal and squalid, just like Burns did as left-writer and working-class fighter'.
Clarity, honesty and pity illuminate Jack's writing; the abundant harvest of many richly lived years in a long pilgrimage sustained by love and indomitable hope.
'passionate'
The Herald
'writing that demands to be read aloud'
Lines Review
'a poet who cares about his community'
The Scotsman
'a writer of restless energy'
Scots Independent
'no sad wee victim mentality in his work... (it is) rumbustious, sprawling, confrontational and ironic'
Books in Scotland
'reminiscent of rap but more irregular - dissidence and heresy make their own point'
Edwin Morgan