About
Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria. He is the author of five acclaimed books of poems, The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006), The Havocs (2012), Jackself (2016) and Material Properties (2023), and a novel Talk of the Town (2010), all published by Picador UK.
Short Bio
Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria. His most recent book of poems is Material Properties (2023). His fourth book of poems, Jackself (2016), won the T.S. Eliot Prize. His previous books are The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006) and The Havocs (2012), and a novel, Talk of the Town (2009), all published by Picador, UK.
Long Bio
Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria. His most recent book of poems is Material Properties (2023). His fourth book of poems, Jackself (2016), won the T.S. Eliot Prize. His previous books are The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006) and The Havocs (2012), and a novel, Talk of the Town (2009), all published by Picador, UK. Talk of the Town won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010. Jacob received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002, and both The Brink and The Havocs were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
In 2011, he was Arts Queensland’s poet-in-residence, and he was Visiting Fellow Commoner in the Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2005-7. He has also held residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and at the Wordsworth Trust.
In 2004, he was named one of the ‘Next Generation’ of the twenty best new poets in Britain. He teaches at Newcastle University and lives with his family on the north-east coast.
Collections
As well as Material Properties, Picador UK have published four books of Jacob’s poetry, The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006), The Havocs (2012) and Jackself (2016), and one novel, Talk of the Town (2010)
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