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\"Jacob_Polley\"Jacob Polley is delighted to have won the 2016 TS Eliot prize with his latest collection, ‘Jackself<\/em>‘, which \u00c2\u00a0judges described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a firework of a book\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

The loosely autobiographical poems use the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of nursery rhyme and local legend to tell the story of a childhood in rural Cumbria, from the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cartilage stew and spreadable carrots\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of school dinners to the limpets the title character \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rives from a crevice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the rocky shore at low tide, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153where the pools gaze \/ with new lenses at their grotto walls \/ flinching with jellies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

Polley emerged as winner of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s richest poetry prize at a ceremony on Monday evening at the Wallace Collection gallery in London. ‘Jackself’\u00c2\u00a0was chosen from a 10-strong shortlist including the winner of the 2015 Forward prize, Vahni Capildeo, and previous TS Eliot prizewinner Alice Oswald.<\/p>\n

It is third time lucky for the Carlisle born poet, who was first shortlisted for his debut collection ‘The Brink’<\/em> in 2003, and then again with ‘The Havocs<\/em>‘ in 2012.<\/p>\n

Chair of judges, Ruth Padel, who was joined on the panel by fellow poets Julia Copus and Alan Gillis, said Jackself was:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d …\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a sort of autobiography, set in a place called Lamanby, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really like Mervyn Peake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gormenghast, where everything is strange. His mastery of phrase and rhythm and the control of line, combined with the hurts of childhood and his glee in inventive language, have taken his writing to a new level.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jacob is the 23rd winner of the prize, which carries a purse of \u00c2\u00a320,000. It was founded by TS Eliot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s widow Valerie in 1993 and is now run by the TS Eliot Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacob Polley is delighted to have won the 2016 TS Eliot prize with his latest collection, ‘Jackself‘, which \u00c2\u00a0judges described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a firework of a book\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The loosely autobiographical poems …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[148,128,147,146,76],"yoast_head":"\n'Jackself' wins 2016 TS Eliot Prize - Jacob Polley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/jackself-wins-2016-ts-eliot-prize\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"'Jackself' wins 2016 TS Eliot Prize - Jacob Polley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jacob Polley is delighted to have won the 2016 TS Eliot prize with his latest collection, ‘Jackself‘, which \u00c2\u00a0judges described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a firework of a book\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. 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