Jacob Polley

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.

‘Flickerman and the Ivory-skinned Woman’, the short film Jacob co-wrote with Ian Fenton, is now available to view here, along with other Lynchpin productions.

Extracts and a short feature on ‘The Recollection Rooms’ can be found on Acknowledged Land. Click here.

Jacob and Imogen Cloet were invited to contribute to Picture House. Their installation, ‘The Recollection Rooms’, took up two downstairs rooms in Belsay Hall. The exhibition opened in May 2007.

Jacob’s short story, ‘Vermin’, appeared in The Decadent Handbook (Dedalus Press) in October 2006.

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.