ABOUT

Jacob Davies is a poet and writer from West Yorkshire. His poetry has been described as passionate, confessional and raw, whilst maintaining a cryptic and abstract core. His acute wit, clarity and ability to articulate the seemingly incomprehensible has set him apart from his peers, with his three published collections of poetry ‘The Things They’ve Never Seen’ , ‘Every Night is November’ & 'The Dream Must Die' creating a real resonance with his audience.

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Jacob is unapologetically transparent in his work, with his work his way of expressing his views, his anger, his incredulity and his complete lack of comprehension over how the world functions today. Citing his main influences as Morrissey, Anne Sexton Patti Smith and Stuart Murdoch, Jacob’s poetry boasts a strong rhythmic and physical quality, adding further force to the words he writes. His poetry resonates with people who see and reflect on the inherent sadness in the everyday. Jacob has an ability to express and shine a light on those complicated thoughts that lurk in the back corners of the mind.

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​The Dream Must Die is his third and boldest collection to date. It offers both a growing maturity, heightening his challenge to today’s societal norms, whilst at the same time reflecting the ruthless struggle against the recognition of one’s fate and the unwinnable war against time. His poems drip with empathy, conflict and loss as he continues to wrestle with the human condition, contemporary society and its contradictory positions of love, hate, acceptance and prejudice. He is both at peace and at war. His work is both uncomfortable and comforting. He sees the individual in the crowd and when you absorb his work you feel seen, heard and noticed personally and individually.

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He regularly performs his work live across the UK, and continues to work on future projects. Aside from his own ventures, he is a proud editor and writer for other artists, and is a regular article writer for publications such as ‘Yorkshire Arts & Minds’ and ‘The Morrissey Mercury’

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Some of the publications Jacob has written for;

Yorkshire Arts & Minds

Knockabout World

The Morrissey Mercury

Bristol Shakespeare Festival

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Other Projects;

Editor of poetry collection 'The Art of Being Human' (2023)

Songwriter for Franco Rivers