by Mike Jenkins | Aug 20, 2024 | Audio, Poems
Ships (in Leonard’s Yard) by Mike Jenkins 19th August, 2024 I wrote this mostly as a stream of consciousness and quite quickly heard the melody of Leonard Cohen’s song ‘Suzanne’ as the rhythm of the poem took hold, so I let it lead. I added the...
by Mike Jenkins | Jul 21, 2024 | Audio, Writing
Memory Was Like Water by Mike Jenkins Memory was like water, quick sometimes, evaporating and reappearing, dripping unheard and unseen or gushing up from the cracks of an overheated moment. Kept for years sometimes, in the same container in the same location alongside...
by Mike Jenkins | Jul 19, 2024 | Audio, Theatre
The Baffling Case of the Bognor Bureau by Written and Performed by Mike Jenkins https://michaeljenkins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mike-jenkins-baffling-bognor.mp3 The Baffling Case of the Bognor Bureau Originally written for The Bognor Regis Heritage...
by Mike Jenkins | Jul 6, 2024 | Audio, Poems
Mostly Empty Space… Victorious by Mike Jenkins sailing out against a sea of Virginia woolf’s wadinghelpless, harrowed sorrow billowing skirts of jellyfishyellowing and returning some hundred years laterVictorious!running rings round the Saturn edge...
by Mike Jenkins | Jun 23, 2024 | Audio, Poems
Mother's Pride by Written and Performed by Mike Jenkins https://michaeljenkins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mothers-pridemj-k-kemp-radio-reverb.mp3 On this day in June 2006 (18 years ago) I had just come home from 9 days in hospital after a 12 hour operation...
by Mike Jenkins | Apr 20, 2024 | Audio
Ominous - A Monologue by Written and Performed by Mike Jenkins https://michaeljenkins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ominous-Mike-Jenkins.mp3 Jacob thought he was the only one that noticed the shift in the air but it seemed everyone was visited by it some way or...
