Jackself

Winner of the 2016 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry

By: Jacob Polley

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Paperback | 3 November 2016

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64 Pages

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15.5 x 19.7 x 0.9

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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 the many 'Jacks' of our folktale, legend, phrase and fable - everyman Jacks and no one Jacks, Jackdaw, Jack-O-Lantern, Jack Sprat, Cheapjack and Jack Frost.

At once playful and terrifying, lyric and narratively compelling, Jackself is an unforgettable exploration of an innocence and childhood lost in the darker corners of Reiver country and of English folklore, and once more shows Polley as one of the most remarkable imaginations at work in poetry today.

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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

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