Jackself
03 November 2016Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.
Jackself is the fourth collection from one of Britain's finest poets, and sees Jacob Polley at the height of his powers. In one of the most original books of poetry to appear in the last decade, Jackself spins a kind of 'fictionalized autobiography' through nursery rhymes, riddles and cautionary tales, and through...
Details
03 November 201680 pages
9781447290445Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling.T. S. Eliot Prize judging panel
It’s a sort of autobiography, set in a place called Lamanby, but it’s really like Mervyn Peake’s 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.Ruth Padel, T. S. Eliot Prize judge
