Wherefore and Whatnot looks back across Jacob Polley’s garlanded twenty-year career, showcasing the very best of his writing. Jake has published five collections of poetry and a novel, all with Picador – his fourth, 2016’s Jackself, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2016, which the judges called ‘a firework of a book, inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling.’
