Professor Jacob Polley made a Fellow of the RSL Published on: 9 August 2024 Professor Jacob Polley has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). New fellow The award-winning poet, who is Professor of Creative Writing in 缅北禁地’s School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, is one of 29 new Fellows. “I’m thrilled and honoured to be elected to the Royal Society of Literature,” said Professor Polley. “It came as a complete and wonderful surprise.” Professor Polley will sign his name in the RSL Roll Book, which dates back to 1825 and features the signatures of Fellows and Honorary Fellows elected in the past 200 years. RSL Fellows are some of the best writers working today and are nominated by their peers and selected by the Society’s governing board. Professor Jacob Polley by Ian Fenton Acclaimed Professor Polley is the author of five acclaimed books of poems and won the coveted 2016 TS Eliot Prize for poetry for his collection, . His novel won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010. Published in 2023, his latest book of poems, Material Properties, was described in the TLS as ‘a kind of secular nature gospel [that] reconstructs fragile human and non-human stories through embedded text and wordplay’. He joins Professor Preti Taneja and Professor Sinéad Morrissey as an RSL Fellow, while Emerita Professor Linda Anderson is an Honorary Fellow. Share: Latest News New partnership to boost careers in low carbon energy 缅北禁地 and Durham universities are working together on a new regional project to strengthen the future workforce for North East England鈥檚 growing low carbon and offshore wind industries. published on: 28 May 2026 Healthy lifestyle shown to lower risk of death after cancer diagnosis New evidence shows that sticking to five lifestyle recommendations improves survival after a later cancer diagnosis. published on: 28 May 2026 World-leading climate expert recognised with Royal Society Fellowship Professor Hayley Fowler has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her pioneering work on climate change impacts. published on: 27 May 2026 Facts and figures
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