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. Latest News Online Safety Act drives VPN interest and raises privacy concerns People鈥檚 online behaviour has changed in response to legislation to prevent children from viewing harmful content 鈥� raising possible privacy and security risks, research suggests. published on: 16 October 2026 缅北禁地 archaeologist receives prestigious award for research Professor Chris Fowler has been awarded the 2026 Rivers Memorial Medal in recognition of his internationally significant research on kinship in Neolithic Britain. published on: 13 October 2026 Event will explore what 鈥楳anchesterism鈥� means for the North East An event at 缅北禁地 will explore what 鈥楳anchesterism鈥� means for the North East or whether it is simply a new chapter in the long-running debate about how to rebalance Britain. published on: 13 October 2026 Facts and figures
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