2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
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Product details
- ISBN 9781447207030
- Weight: 100g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Little Gods established Jacob Polley as one of the leading talents of the younger generation; his third collection sees him extend that gift in often wholly unexpected directions. As before, Polley’s work is often unashamedly lyric, and displays a virtuosic range of form and address. However, the light has changed in The Havocs: these poems are often imbued with the weird, uncanny and otherworldly, drawing on the folkloric and mythic traditions of north Britain – as well as forms from older English traditions, including riddles and cautionary tales. However oblique his strategies, Polley’s work remains fixed on our most central concerns: our losses of faith, our working lives, our irrational fears and our loves. The Havocs charts a daring new turn in the work of one of our finest English poets.
Jake Polley was born in Carlisle in 1975. He is the author of two poetry collections, both published by Picador and a novel, Talk of the Town.
