Jacob Polley

Jacob Polley is the author of four acclaimed poetry collections with Picador, The Brink, Little Gods, The Havocs, winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Jackself, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2016. He was named one of the Next Generation poets in 2004, and his first novel, Talk of the Town, was published in 2009. Born in Carlisle in Cumbria, he now lives with his family on the North East coast and teaches at Newcastle University. Material Properties is his fifth collection.