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Jacob Polley (born 1975) is a British poet, born in Carlisle, Cumbria.

Polley won an Eric Gregory Award, and the BBC Radio 4/Arts Council ‘First Verse’ Award, in 2002. His first book, The Brink (Picador 2003), was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and went on to be shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys prize.

Polley was selected as one of the Next Generation Poets in 2004.

He graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in 1997.

His second book, Little Gods (Picador 2006), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He was Visiting Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2005-07.

Jacob Polley’s first novel, Talk of the Town, was published in June 2009 by Picador. The book went on to win the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award and was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.

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