Jacob Polley. Courtesy YouTube.
Jacob Polley (born 1975) is an English poet.
Life[]
Polley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria.
He earned an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Lancaster in 1997.
Polley was poet in residence at the Wordsworth Trust in 2002, and Visiting Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2005-07. He was the 2011 Arts Queensland poet in residence.
Recognition[]
- Polley won an Eric Gregory Award, and the BBC Radio 4/Arts Council ‘First Verse’ Award, in 2002.[1]
- His debut collection, The Brink (Picador 2003), was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and went on to be shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Poetry Prize, and the John Llewellyn Rhys prize.[1]
- Polley was selected as aNext Generation Poet in 2004.[1]
- His 2nd poetry book, Little Gods (2006), was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.[1]
- His 3rd collection, The Havocs (2012), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2012.[1]
- Polley’s debut novel, Talk of the Town (Picador, 2009), won the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award and was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Salvage (chapbook). Carlisle, UK: Northern Lights, 2002.[2]
- The Brink. London: Picador, 2003.
- In the Return. Darlington, UK: Myles Meehan Gallery, 2005.
- Little Gods. London: Picador, 2006.
- The Havocs. London: Picador, 2012.
Novel[]
- Talk of the Town. London: Picador, 2009.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
Audio / video[]
Jacob Polley - The Owls
- Jacob Polley: Reading from his poems. London: Poetry Archive, 2010.[4]
Film-writing[]
- Flickerman and the Ivory-skinned Woman (directed by Ian Fenton)
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Alison Flood (23 October 2012). "TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/23/ts-eliot-prize-poetry-shortlist. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ Salvage, Abe Books. Web, Feb. 22, 2014.
- ↑ Search results = au:Jacob Polley, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 22, 2014.
- ↑ Jacob Polley (b. 1975), The Poetry Archive. Web, Feb. 22, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "October"
- Jacob Polley at the Poetry Foundation.
- 3 poems by Polley: "Smoke," "The Cheapjack," "Doll's House"
- Audio / video
- Books
- Jacob Polley at Amazon.com
- About
- Jacob Polley at the Forward Arts Foundation
- Jacob Polley at the University of St. Andrews
- Jacob Polley Official website.
- Review of Little Gods
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