Tom Jenks
@tomjenksuk.bsky.social
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Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
The penultimate week of recording everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, some festive disruption.
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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.
3 days ago
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New badge, 25mm, for discreet expression of exasperation or melancholy.
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6 days 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.
9 days ago
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15 days ago
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Week 49 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a perfect match.
16 days 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.
20 days ago
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Week 48 of documenting everything I buy on the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, Santa is depressed.
23 days ago
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Week 47 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a courtly interlude.
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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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about 1 month 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.
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Week 45 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, pancakes and more pancakes.
about 1 month ago
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about 2 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.
about 2 months ago
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Annual true north Hallowe'en carved swede post.
about 2 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.
about 2 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.
about 2 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/
about 2 months ago
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Nearly Halloween.
2 months ago
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Week 42 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, multiples.
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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All words beginning with 'k' in The Trial by Franz Kafka, in order of occurrence, delineated by colour.
2 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.
2 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
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Week 40 of documenting everything I buy at the reduced counter this year. Smashed my teeth last week, so food largely in soft focus.
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3 months ago
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Week 40 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, mini muffin bookends.
3 months ago
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Week 39 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a big week for hummus chips.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Week 38 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, troglodyte stuff.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Week 37 of documenting everything I buy at the reduced counter this year. This week, how to house a pizza.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Week 35 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. Cette semaine, beaucoup de fromage.
4 months ago
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New postcard card about hazy days, misunderstood devil dogs.
tomjenks.uk/shop/p/mist-...
4 months ago
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Week 34 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, rogue punctuation and solid milk.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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New postcard about big cats, exotic root vegetables and alternative careers up now on my website
tomjenks.uk
4 months ago
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Week 33 of documenting everything I buy at the reduced counter this year. This week, some finds from the shores of the Danube.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Week 32 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarked reduced counter this year. This week, a vegetable-based space opera.
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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New postcard, about the dangers of filtered water, treacherous tracksuits and the inadequacy of cocktail sticks.
tomjenks.uk/shop/p/cockt...
5 months ago
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Week 31 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, very small pizzas, no mayo.
5 months ago
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New postcard, short prose piece on the back, text relating to the piece on the front. Available at my website, should you be so inclined.
tomjenks.uk/shop/p/grey-...
5 months ago
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Week 30 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket counter this year. This week, some flat doughnuts, basically.
5 months ago
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First of what I'm planning to be a series of postcards. Reverse contains a short prose piece. Front relatates to something from the piece, in this case the mystical incantation HOT CURRY SAUCE. I'm selling these for the price of printing and postage on my website.
tomjenks.uk/shop/p/hot-c...
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