Creative Writing Course with Jacob Polley
Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre is in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, just fourteen miles from the city of Inverness. Since 1993 Moniack Mhor has been running creative writing courses …
The story of Jackself is threaded with nursery rhymes, riddles and cautionary tales, and told through the many 'Jacks' of English legend, phrase and fable.
About Jackself Buy JackselfJacob Polley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria. He is the author of four acclaimed books of poems, The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006), The Havocs (2012) and Jackself (2016) all published by Picador, UK.
Jacob Polley is the author of four acclaimed poetry collections, The Brink, Little Gods, The Havocs and Jackself, which won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize. His Somerset Maugham Award-winning novel, Talk of the Town, was published in 2009. Born in Cumbria, Jacob now lives and works in Newcastle.
Jacob Polley was born and grew up in Cumbria. His fourth book of poems, Jackself, won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, the judges describing it as ‘a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling.’ His three previous books of poems, The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006) and The Havocs (2012), are all published by Picador, UK. Both The Brink and The Havocs were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and The Havocs won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Jacob’s first novel, Talk of the Town, a fiercely demotic coming-of-age murder mystery, won the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award.
Jacob has held residencies in Queensland, at the Wordsworth Trust and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and he was Visiting Fellow Commoner in the Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2005-7. In 2004, he was named one of the ‘Next Generation’ of the twenty best new poets in Britain, and in 2002 he won an Eric Gregory Award. He lives in the North East and teaches at the University of Newcastle.
As well as Jackself, Picador UK have published three books of Jacob’s poetry, The Havocs (2012), Little Gods (2006) and The Brink (2003), as well as his first novel, Talk of the Town (2010)
Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre is in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, just fourteen miles from the city of Inverness. Since 1993 Moniack Mhor has been running creative writing courses …
Jacob is hosting a weekend at Stones Barns in Cumbria. Details of the weekend and how to book here: https://stonesbarn.co.uk/jacob-polley And more about Stones Barns here: https://stonesbarn.co.uk/about
Jacob is reading with Jean Sprackland at the Portico Library in the first event of a new series celebrating writers and writing connected with the North of England. In each …
Jacob is delighted to be appearing as Festival Laureate at this years Durham Book Festival. He will also be showcasing his work Lamanby at Durham, Newcastle, Norwich and at Carlisle’s Borderlines Book …
Jacob is available for poetry readings and creative writing workshops.
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