Week 5 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

Pointless miracles.

Late-ish winter, very short poem.

Squirrel, poem.

Week 4 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

Winter, poem.

10 haggis variations for Robert Burns.

Short poem: demanding dolls.

Week 3 of recording everything I lose and find in 2026.

Short short poem.

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.

Week 2 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

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...

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.

Short poem about keeping giants in proportion.

Short wintry poem.

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...

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.

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...

Tuesday poem #665 : Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social : Two poems dusie.blogspot.com/2025/12/tues...

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...

Prose poems, again.

The penultimate week of recording everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, some festive disruption.

All words containing 'z' in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in order of occurrence. All mentions of 'Ebenezer' picked out in black.

New badge, 25mm, for discreet expression of exasperation or melancholy. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/sighb...

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.

Week 49 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a perfect match.

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.

Week 48 of documenting everything I buy on the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, Santa is depressed.

Week 47 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a courtly interlude.

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...

Week 46 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a triple hot shot of hot honey.

Week 45 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, pancakes and more pancakes.

Week 44 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week Christmas meets Halloween uptown, or rather in suburbia.

Annual true north Hallowe'en carved swede post.

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.

Week 43 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarked reduced counter this year. Plant Chef Festive Feasts come earlier every year.

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...

Nearly Halloween.

Week 42 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, multiples.

All words beginning with 'k' in The Trial by Franz Kafka, in order of occurrence, delineated by colour.

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.

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