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Jacob Polley is the author of five poetry collections with Picador, including Material Properties, The Havocs, winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Jackself, which received the 2016 T.S. Eliot Award. His first novel, Talk of the Town, a fiercely demotic coming-of-age murder mystery, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010. From Carlisle, in Cumbria, he now lives with his family on the coast at Whitley Bay and teaches at Newcastle University.
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