Jacob Polley

Jacob has a new short story, ‘Watch’, published in the April Issue of Esquire, the one with Leonardo di Caprio on the cover. Though he’s not in the story…

Way back in December 2009,the Independent on Sunday named Talk of the Town, along with Wells Tower’s wonderful Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, ‘Most Impressive Debut of the Year’ in its books of the year round-up. Talk of the Town is due out in small format paperback in May.

Jacob has a new poem, ‘Keepers’, and an article, ‘The World in the Mouth, the Mouth in the World’, in the new issue of Magma, edited by Clare Pollard. Link here. There’s a new interview with Jacob on the EncompassCulture website, which takes in poetry and prose, reading and writing. Link here. There was a new poem, ‘Eviction’, in the Summer 2009 issue of Poetry London. Link here.

on fictional time and decisiveness for the Picador blog; on accent and inspiration for the Scotsman; and on childhood, friendship and special ways of talking for Untitled Books.

…on the Scottish Poetry Library’s website. This piece comes from Jacob’s work as Poet Partner with the Scottish Poetry Library’s partner collection in Dumfries and Galloway Libraries and with Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association, when he talked to reading groups about the pleasures of discovering poetry.

The poem Phill Jupitus reads on the BBC’s Poetry Season trailer is ‘A Jar of Honey’. You can read the poem here. It appears in Jacob Polley’s first book, The Brink. You can see the complete trailer here.