Jacob’s new short story, ‘Vermin’, appeared in The Decadent Handbook (Dedalus Press) in October 2006. You can read the first few paragraphs of ‘Vermin’ here.
Little Gods was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2006. Click the link here for the Poetry Book Society’s website, where you can download a copy of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin for Autumn 2006.
The April/May issue of ‘The Liberal’ contains a long review of Little Gods by Fiona Sampson. Click here to visit the magazine’s website and read the review.
Click here to read poems from Little Gods as they appeared in various places, like Poetry (Chicago), the Guardian, Todd Swift’s Eyewear site etc.
Jacob and Imogen Cloet have been invited to contribute to Picture House. Their installation, ‘The Recollection Rooms’, will take up two downstairs rooms in Belsay Hall. The exhibition opens in May 2007.
Extracts and a short feature on ‘The Recollection Rooms’ can be found on Acknowledged Land. Click here.
You can now hear Jacob reading, recorded live at the Wordsworth Trust in September 2007, at the 39 Dover Street website. Click here to go to the website.
Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle. His books of poetry are published by Picador in the UK.