Couple of Sunday early summer weird 8 liners, little boxes of rubble.

New post on visualising Walden; or A Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau. tinyurl.com/mr3jdjhy

Week 20 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

Named trees in Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854), in order of occurrence.

I've been writing poems about weak men, combining found text (mostly from Quora digest) and written material. Weak men are apparently more likely to become socialists, apparently, which is what happens if you don't stand up when you shake hands.

New post on visualising A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. tinyurl.com/4pydywf6

Week 19 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

More 8 liners I've been playing around with. Don't really know what I'm doing with them, but I like making them, putting things on poem shelves.

Words containing every letter of ‘Paris’ (image 1) and every letter of ‘London’ (image 2) in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859), in order of occurrence. Selection is any number of instances of letters, e.g. includes words with one ‘o’ in London image.

New post on visualising Journey to the Centre of the Earth: methods, aims, shared resources. Read at tomjenks.substack.com/p/i-dream-wi...

Week 18 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

Some more little 8 line poem boxes.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864). Number of letters per chapter, charted alphabetically. Chapter 1 is outer tip of spiral, moving sequentially to Chapter 44 at the centre.

New posters: The Cherry Orchard, Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby. Printed on 230 gsm matt presentation paper, A3 size (28.7 x 42 cm) by Phoenix Press in Sale. More information at tomjenks.uk

New post on visualising Waiting for Godot.

Week 17 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

References to Godot in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952). Order of occurence, alternating colours.

I've been fiddling around with form again, making little boxes and filling them with various things, found, made, enjoyable jumble.

New post on visualising Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes. Some technical info in this one. open.substack.com/pub/tomjenks...

Week 16 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

Letter frequency in A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy (1872). Proportion of text accounted for by each letter indicated by number of dots, in alphabetical order from top left. Colour change indicates new letter.

Short dumplings and almonds poem.

New Substack post on visualising Pepys' diaries through food. tomjenks.substack.com/p/strange-to...

Week 15 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

References to oysters in the diaries of Samuel Pepys, alternating colours, in order of occurrence.

Substack post on visualising Don Quixote tinyurl.com/mtbmt6cf

If you struggle to express enthusiasm to the level modern life requires, this is the badge for you. In LinkedIn colours. Keep it corporate. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/i-am-...

Week 14 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

All words containing every letter of the word "windmill" in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1615), in order of occurrence from 12 o' clock position. All direct mentions of windmills in white.

Substack post on visualising Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. tinyurl.com/3hz6aa2j

Week 13 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

Instances of "melancholy" or "melancholia" in The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (1621). Text split into 1000 x 1000 grid. Mention of either word within section indicated by blue dot.

Short Substack piece on visualising The Great Gatsby. tinyurl.com/kufwbhfb

Week 12 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

All mentions of green in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925). References to "green light" highlighted in bright, bold green.

Short inclement weather poem.

Small elves and bees poem.

Short Substack post about visualising The Cherry Orchard: methods, issues, principles, aesthetics. tomjenks.substack.com/p/just-as-if...

Week 11 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

All references to cherries in The Cherry Orchard (1904) by Anton Chekhov, alternating colours, in order of occurrence.

All references to hand-bags in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895), alternating colours, in order of occurrence.

Been a bit lax on the old Substack, but I wrote a short piece about text visualisation and ways to do it. Always happy to share techniques and tips, if you're interested. open.substack.com/pub/tomjenks...

Week 10 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

Out today on zimzalla: Colour / Grammar by Greg Thomas, a set of colour-coded eco-poetry postcards, in a mandarin orange box. Each box contains two copies of each card: one to keep, one to send. The reverse of each card has a space for an address, a message and a stamp. More at zimzalla.co.uk

Sunday Wednesday Thursday horse impersonation poem.

Week 9 of recording everything I lose and find in 2026.

A short piece about Manchester and poetry for @robmclennan.bsky.social and periodicities. The pictures, courtesy of David Gaffney, are from the above/ground press readings last week with me, @ggaffa.bsky.social and @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery. bsky.app/profile/robm...

Short corporate poem.