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). His novel Talk of the Town (2009 ) won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010.
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). His novel Talk of the Town (2009 ) won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010. All of his books are published by Picador, UK. In 2011, he was Visiting Fellow Commoner in the Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2005-7. He has also been Poet in Residence 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.
