Jacob Polley
Books

Little Gods was published on December 1st 2006.

Fiona Sampson on Little Gods in the April/May issue of The Liberal:

‘Polley’s ability to balance exquisite form with surprising material it never quite subdues keeps this collection alive and breathing in a way that is rare in the era of the workshop poem…’

To read the full review click here.

To read three reviews from The Times click here, here and here.

Click to read The Cheapjack (shortlisted for the 2006 Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem)

The Brink was published in 2003. It was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and John Llewellyn Rhys Prizes.

The Guardian described The Brink as ‘the kind of poetry that imbues the everyday, the tarnished and burnished, with the possibilities of the transcendent’, while The Times called it ‘a sparkling collection of crystalline poems’.

Click to read the review of The Brink from The Times. And the review from the Times Literary Supplement.

To buy a copy of The Brink click on the cover image above.

Click to read The North-South Divide from The Brink.