A Habit of WritingHelen Jacobs wrote her first poem nearly fifty years ago in response to a TV programme on nuclear war. Elaine Jakobsson, in her life as a local body politician and environmental activist mayor of Eastbourne, she worked for the Women's Electoral Lobby and was later appointed to the Planning Tribunal Helen Jacobs was the name she adopted for her writing. In 1984, she launched her first collection, with five more to come over the years, and became