Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Jacob Polley wins £20k T S Eliot Prize

Jacob Polley wins £20k T S Eliot Prize


Jacob Polley has won the £20,000 T S Eliot Prize for poetry for his “firework of a book” Jackself (Picador).
Polley was announced as the winner at a ceremony in the Wallace Collection in London yesterday evening (16th January).
Ruth Padel chaired the judges on a panel with Julia Copus and Alan Gillis. She said: “All three judges were agonised by choosing between such brilliant books. But the winning collection, Jacob Polley’s Jackself, is a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling.”

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