Tom Jenks
@tomjenksuk.bsky.social
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Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
Week 5 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.
6 days ago
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Pointless miracles.
7 days ago
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Late-ish winter, very short poem.
8 days ago
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Squirrel, poem.
13 days ago
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Week 4 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.
13 days ago
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Winter, poem.
16 days ago
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10 haggis variations for Robert Burns.
18 days ago
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Short poem: demanding dolls.
19 days ago
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Week 3 of recording everything I lose and find in 2026.
20 days ago
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Short short poem.
22 days ago
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25 days ago
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Throughout 2025, I documented everything I bought at the supermarket reduced counter, a project inspired by Georges Perec's Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four.
26 days ago
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Week 2 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.
27 days ago
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28 days ago
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Looking forward to supporting David Gaffney at the launch of his excellent new above/ground press title Lakes of Titan, with Lydia Unsworth, at Saul Hay gallery in Manchester. Details at
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abovegroun...
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above/ground book launch featuring David Gaffney, Lydia Unsworth, Tom Jenks
above/ground press present live poetry at Saul Hay Gallery with David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, and Lydia Unsworth - plus art and free wine!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aboveground-book-launch-featuring-david-gaffney-lydia-unsworth-tom-jenks-tickets-1979710024977
about 1 month ago
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Throughout 2026, I'm recording everything I lose and where I eventually find it. I'm going to try and do this every Friday. Here is the first instalment.
about 1 month ago
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Short poem about keeping giants in proportion.
about 1 month ago
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Short wintry poem.
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Tom Jenks
rob mclennan
about 1 month ago
some above/ground press author activity: Benjamin Niespodziany, Tom Jenks, Neil Flowers, Stuart Ross + Penn Kemp, /
@neonpajamas.bsky.social
@tomjenksuk.bsky.social
;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/some...
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some author activity: Niespodziany, Jenks, Flowers, Ross + Kemp,
Benjamin Niespodziany offers "My Favorite Reads of 2025," and includes Tom Jenks' 2025 above/ground press title, Chimneys , which was nice ;...
https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/some-author-activity-niespodziany-jenks.html
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The final instalment of my project documenting everything I bought at the supermarket reduced counter in 2025. Thanks to everyone who liked, shared and read throughout the year. I'm going to collate everything into a summary document soon.
about 1 month ago
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Thanks greatly to
@neonpajamas.bsky.social
for including me in his end of year review along with
@vikshirley.bsky.social
@postpran.bsky.social
and many other great writers. A great privilege, as always, to be read and to be enjoyed. Full list at
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/favorit...
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Tom Jenks
rob mclennan
about 1 month ago
Tuesday poem #665 : Tom Jenks
@tomjenksuk.bsky.social
: Two poems
dusie.blogspot.com/2025/12/tues...
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Tuesday poem #665 : Tom Jenks : Two poems
harm The Northmen are coming, their longboats with striped sails silhouetted on the horizon. We discuss the implications over coffee a...
https://dusie.blogspot.com/2025/12/tuesday-poem-665-tom-jenks-two-poems.html
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Very pleased to feature in the epically long running Dusie Tuesday poem series, with thanks to
@robmclennan.bsky.social
Here is the first piece, with more at
dusie.blogspot.com/2025/12/tues...
about 1 month ago
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Prose poems, again.
about 2 months ago
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The penultimate week of recording everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, some festive disruption.
about 2 months ago
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All words containing 'z' in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in order of occurrence. All mentions of 'Ebenezer' picked out in black.
about 2 months ago
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New badge, 25mm, for discreet expression of exasperation or melancholy.
tomjenks.uk/shop/p/sighb...
about 2 months ago
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Week 50 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a cold coming we had of it, in the chilled aisle.
about 2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Week 49 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a perfect match.
2 months ago
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Perhaps you feel that the world doesn't yet fully recognise your exceptional talents and that, frankly, people should be grateful you show up at all. If so, this is the badge for you.
2 months ago
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Week 48 of documenting everything I buy on the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, Santa is depressed.
2 months ago
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Week 47 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a courtly interlude.
3 months ago
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After some time out of print, zimzalla has a new batch of INDEX by
@sophieherx.bsky.social
(a deck of prophetic poem cards in a luxury red and gold box) back on sale. More at
zimzalla.co.uk/060-sophie-h...
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3 months ago
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Week 46 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a triple hot shot of hot honey.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Week 45 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, pancakes and more pancakes.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Week 44 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week Christmas meets Halloween uptown, or rather in suburbia.
3 months ago
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Annual true north Hallowe'en carved swede post.
3 months ago
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To mark Hallowe'en, all the words beginning with "r" or "b" in Tam o' Shanter by Robert Burns (1790), colour-coded, in order of occurrence.
3 months ago
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Week 43 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarked reduced counter this year. Plant Chef Festive Feasts come earlier every year.
4 months ago
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Very pleased to have a poem up at Ghost Furniture Catalogue, from my Mum & Dad sequence. Thanks to Bill Herbert and
@sophieherx.bsky.social
ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/t...
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Tom Jenks: from ‘Mum & Dad’
‘Exciting opportunities make me tired’ Dad complains,‘like board games, opera, or the countryside.’Dad just wants to drink Tizer and remember things,like when the nuns learned to roller skateor the…
https://ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/tom-jenks-from-mum-dad/
4 months ago
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Nearly Halloween.
4 months ago
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Week 42 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, multiples.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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All words beginning with 'k' in The Trial by Franz Kafka, in order of occurrence, delineated by colour.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Week 41 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. How do you make milk roll? Push it down a hill.
4 months ago
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Started to put a few things up on my Substack, a mere 2 years after I created it. Here, if you're interested:
tomjenks.substack.com
4 months ago
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