Jacob Polley talks to Kayo Chingonyi by The Poetry Society published on 2017-01-18T12:05:14Z Jacob Polley, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2016, talks to Kayo Chingonyi, co-editor of the autumn issue of The Poetry Review, about his Eliot prize-winning collection, Jackself. “The self is at the root of all my work, but maybe my work springs from the tension between self-expression and concealment, of running the self through a magic lantern and seeing what comes out the other side,” Polley says. They discuss Polley’s recent collaborations with musician John Alder, the influence of Cumbria or the ‘Debatable Lands’ in which he grew up, acceptance and rejection, and of working with his editor Don Paterson. Jacob also reads the poem ‘Snow Dad’, first published in The Poetry Review. To connect with more poetry, visit poetrysociety.org.uk Genre Learning Comment by Mke Fuller Among my favourite poets are the poet, dramatist and the early 18th century British Poet Laureate, Nicholas Rowe and the victorian poet Alfred Austin. 2017-02-18T20:15:40Z