Poet and Novelist
Jacob Polley and fellow TS Eliot prize shortlisted poet Sean Borodale will be appearing at Durham University on Thursday 13th June. The readings will be held in the Durham Union Society’s debating chamber, on Palace Green.
Durham University Centre for Poetry and Poetics, in association with the Poetry Book Society are hosting the event which begins at 7.30 pm
Jacob will be judging the open prize entries to the inaugural poetry competition run by Poets and Players, one of Manchester’s leading organisers of poetry and music events in collaboration with the Whitworth Prize. Entries will be decided by the Poets and Players committee and judged by Jacob.
Winners will be invited to read alongside Jacob at a launch ceremony on the afternoon of 8 June 2013 at the Whitworth Art Gallery where they will also receive their prize.
Jacob features on BBC Radio 4’s new poetry programme,‘The Echo Chamber’, on Sunday March. Translation is the theme, and Jacob debuts some of he and Dr Chris Jones’ ‘twiddles’ - Anglo-Saxon riddles from the Exeter Book, recast for Twitter - as well as reading some poems from The Havocs. Link to the Twitter project here.
Jacob is on The Verb tonight, February 1st, on BBC Radio 3. He’s talking about ballads, reading ‘Langley Lane’, and having a good old time. The programme can be heard on Listen Again, and downloaded as a podcast.