{"id":902,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/jacob-polley\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:00:52","slug":"jacob-polley","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/jacob-polley\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Polley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle in 1975. He is the author of five poetry collections: <em>The Brink<\/em> (2003); <em>Little Gods<\/em> (2006); <em>The Havocs<\/em> (2012); <em>Jackself<\/em> (2016); and <em>Material Properties<\/em> (2023), all published by Picador Poetry. Both <em>The Brink<\/em> and <em>The Havocs<\/em> were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; <em>Jackself<\/em> was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and in 2004 was named one of the \u2018Next Generation\u2019 of the twenty best new poets in the UK and Ireland. His novel, <em>Talk of the Town<\/em>, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010. He has held residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and at the Wordsworth Trust. He teaches at Newcastle University and lives with his family on the north-east coast. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Dave Wall<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobpolley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.jacobpolley.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle in 1975. He is the author of five poetry collections: The Brink (2003); Little Gods (2006); The Havocs (2012); Jackself (2016); and Material Properties (2023), all published by Picador Poetry. Both The Brink and The Havocs were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Jackself was awarded the T. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9159,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-902","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}