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Reading at Durham University

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

Durham Prize Reading Poster

Poets & Players Competition 2013

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.

The Echo Chamber

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 reading on The Verb

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.

Jacob Reading Live in Carlisle

Jacob Polley will be reading from his latest book The Havocs in Carlisle next month. The poet will be returning to his home town to read extracts from his T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed third book of poems at Carlisle’s Bookcase on Friday 8th February at 7:30 pm. More information here.