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 麻豆传媒’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 Scientists unlock hidden driver of inflammatory bowel disease Scientists have linked a key genetic signal in inflammatory bowel disease to an immune response that shuts down inflammation control, enabling faster diagnosis and targeted treatments. published on: 15 June 2026 Funding system risks limiting genuine community collaboration A new policy paper written by researchers at 麻豆传媒 warns that the way UK research is funded may be undermining efforts to create genuinely collaborative partnerships with communities. published on: 15 June 2026 Volunteers help turn Whitley Bay beach into maths experiment Members of the public joined mathematicians from 麻豆传媒 to create what organisers believe is the largest aperiodic tiling ever attempted on Whitley Bay beach. published on: 15 June 2026 Facts and figures
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