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	<title>Jacob Polley</title>
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	<description>Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle. His books of poetry are published by Picador in the UK.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2006/08/08/19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacob&#8217;s new short story, &#8216;Vermin&#8217;, appeared in The Decadent Handbook (Dedalus Press) in October 2006. You can read the first few paragraphs of &#8216;Vermin&#8217; here.
Little Gods was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2006. Click the link here for the Poetry Book Society&#8217;s website, where you can download a copy of the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Readings</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below you will find details of Jacob Polley&#8217;s upcoming reading appearances. Click on the links.
In lieu of catching Jacob in person, you can hear him captured live here. Jacob also contributes a poem to Oxfam&#8217;s Life Lines 2 CD. Click here for details.
2008
February 24th Shore Poets in Edinburgh - 7.45pm at at the Mai Thai [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Links</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EnCompass Culture
This is the British Council&#8217;s worldwide reading-group website -
&#8216;the place to find your next book and talk about books with other readers around the world. It has full details of over 6,000 books for all age ranges and is full of useful features.&#8217;
The link will take you to online reader in residence Susan Tranter&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Contacts</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agent
Peter Straus
Rogers, Coleridge &#038; White Ltd,
20 Powis Mews,
London W11 1JN.
Tel: + 44 20 7221 3717
Fax: + 44 20 7229 9084
The email address for this site is:
jake@jacobpolley.com
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		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2006/08/08/biography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Biography</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle, in 1975. Picador published his first book of poetry, The Brink, in 2003 and his second, Little Gods, in December 2006. As well as poems, Jacob has also written the short film Flickerman and the Ivory-skinned Woman with the director, Ian Fenton.
Jacob was selected as one of the Next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Gods</title>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2006/08/04/little-gods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Books</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Little Gods was published on December 1st 2006.
Fiona Sampson on Little Gods in the April/May issue of The Liberal:
&#8216;Polley’s ability to balance exquisite form with surprising 	    material it never quite subdues keeps this collection alive and breathing 	    in a way that is rare in the era of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brink</title>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2006/08/04/the-brink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Books</category>
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The Brink was published in 2003. It was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and John Llewellyn Rhys Prizes.
The Guardian described The Brink as &#8216;the kind of poetry that imbues the everyday, the tarnished and burnished, with the possibilities of the transcendent&#8217;, while The Times called it &#8216;a sparkling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cheapjack</title>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2006/08/01/another-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poetry</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do I have for as near as damn it?
What do I sell but I’m giving away?
Might I pick my own pockets
and slit my own throat
and dump myself dead in a shop doorway?
Daffodils, bird whistles, bobble hats
fickle fish, slinkies, your name spelled in wire;
caterpillars, mouse mats,
trick plastic dog-shit,
conniptions, predictions and God’s own fire.
I’ve bargained myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The North-South Divide</title>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2006/08/01/this-is-a-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poetry</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[fills with flood-water;
the bows of Scotland lift clear
of the Atlantic, cod roam
the East Anglian plains; kelp
throttles Sherwood, the chimneys
of the Midlands slowly barnacle,
Cumbria tilts;
congers lie in catacombs
cold-wiring our relics,
our kings’ bones;
a whale hangs a moment
singing in the vault
of St Paul’s; men dive
through their Southern libraries,
where crabs unpick the calfskin
of our histories;
Stratford Under Avon
is swanless and [...]]]></description>
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