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		<title>&#8216;A Book of Water&#8217; on the Guardian&#8217;s website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jacob has written a new poem, &#8216;A Book of Water&#8217;, to celebrate the re-opening of the New Bookshop, in Cockermouth, Cumbria, which was flooded in 2009. READ the poem as it appears on the Guardian&#8217;s site here, and LISTEN to Jacob read it here.
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		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2010/07/05/a-book-of-water-on-the-guardians-website/</link>
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		<title>Somerset Maugham Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been announced that &#8216;Talk of the Town&#8217; has received the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors. Details here.
On June 23rd the results of the Desmond Elliot Prize will be announced. &#8216;Talk of the Town&#8217; is on the shortlist, along with Ali Shaw&#8217;s &#8216;The Girl with Glass Feet&#8217; and Maria Allen&#8217;s &#8216;Before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2010/06/17/somerset-maugham-award/</link>
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		<title>The Verb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jacob has written a new story, &#8216;The Bugle&#8217;, for The Verb, on BBC Radio 3, and reads it this Friday (April 30th) at 9.15pm. Also featured on the show is a look back at the life and work of the great Peter Porter, a piece by Polar Bear, and a new poetry app&#8230;
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		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2010/04/29/the-verb/</link>
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		<title>A Story in Esquire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jacob has a new short story, &#8216;Watch&#8217;, published in the April Issue of Esquire, the one with Leonardo di Caprio on the cover. Though he&#8217;s not in the story&#8230;
Way back in December 2009,the Independent on Sunday named Talk of the Town, along with Wells Tower&#8217;s wonderful Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, &#8216;Most Impressive Debut of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2010/03/01/a-story-in-esquire/</link>
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		<title>A Late Update&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jacob has a new poem, &#8216;Keepers&#8217;, and an article, &#8216;The World in the Mouth, the Mouth in the World&#8217;, in the new issue of Magma, edited by Clare Pollard. Link here. There&#8217;s a new interview with Jacob on the EncompassCulture website, which takes in poetry and prose, reading and writing. Link here. There was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2009/11/20/a-late-update/</link>
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		<title>Jacob Writes Some Talk of the Town Articles&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2009/07/21/jacob-writes-some-talk-of-the-town-articles/</link>
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		<title>Jacob on Keats and reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;on the Scottish Poetry Library&#8217;s website. This piece comes from Jacob&#8217;s work as Poet Partner with the Scottish Poetry Library&#8217;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.
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		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2009/06/02/jacob-on-keats-and-reading/</link>
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		<title>Honey Poem on the BBC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The poem Phill Jupitus reads on the BBC&#8217;s Poetry Season trailer is &#8216;A Jar of Honey&#8217;. You can read the poem here. It appears in Jacob Polley&#8217;s first book, The Brink. You can see the complete trailer here.
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		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2009/05/28/honey-poem-on-the-bbc/</link>
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		<title>Old news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Flickerman and the Ivory-skinned Woman&#8217;, 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 &#8216;The Recollection Rooms&#8217; can be found on Acknowledged Land. Click here.
Jacob and Imogen Cloet were invited to contribute to Picture House. Their installation, &#8216;The Recollection Rooms&#8217;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2006/08/08/19/</link>
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		<title>The Cheapjack</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://jacobpolley.com/news/2006/08/01/another-poem/</link>
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