Jacob Polley

Jacob has two new poems in the latest issue of Poetry Review, and a new story - entitled ‘Wildflowers’ but missing its title in the mag - in the January issue of Esquire.

A CD of Jacob reading from his two poetry collections has become available on the Poetry Archive website. Click on the link to read his archive entry and hear five poems - ‘Smoke’, ‘The North-South Divide’, ‘The Weasel’, ‘Decree’ and ‘The Prescription’.

Jacob has written a new poem, ‘A Book of Water’, to celebrate the re-opening of the New Bookshop, in Cockermouth, Cumbria, which was flooded in 2009. READ the poem as it appears on the Guardian’s site here, and LISTEN to Jacob read it here.

It’s been announced that ‘Talk of the Town’ has received the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors. Details here.

On June 23rd the results of the Desmond Elliot Prize will be announced. ‘Talk of the Town’ is on the shortlist, along with Ali Shaw’s ‘The Girl with Glass Feet’ and Maria Allen’s ‘Before the Earthquake’.

Jacob has written a new story, ‘The Bugle’, for The Verb, on BBC Radio 3, and reads it this Friday (April 30th) at 9.15pm. Also featured on the show is a look back at the life and work of the great Peter Porter, a piece by Polar Bear, and a new poetry app…