[Peter Wilson, The Australian, November 28th 2009]:
Jacob Polley vividly remembers the moment he “discovered” Emma Jones, the new star of Australian poetry. “I just thought ‘wow’. Where did she get this stuff from?,” recalls Polley about the first time he heard Jones, then 28, read one of her poems.
It was 2006 and Polley, one Britain’s most prominent rising poets, had organised a small gathering of students and writers at Cambridge University in his capacity as a visiting fellow at the university’s Trinity College. “I thought I would bring a few people together to read out some of their poems and I had met Emma socially through an Australian friend of hers and I heard she was a writer so I asked her to come along.”