Jacob Polley
B. 1975
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Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria, in 1975. He is the author of four collections of poetry, The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006), The Havocs (2012), and Jackself (2016). His novel, Talk of the Town (2009), won the Somerset Maugham Award. He teaches at Newcastle University.