by Mike Jenkins | Mar 19, 2026 | Poems
Audio Recording Mothering Heights by Mike Jenkins https://michaeljenkins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mothering-Heights-by-Mike-Jenkins.mp3 You Are Better Than My Pen A powerful new voice in contemporary verse. From the streets of a Belfast childhood to wandering...
by Mike Jenkins | Sep 22, 2024 | Poems
In Dec 2023 Stonepillow asked me to write a poem for their Winter Appeal to raise awareness and funding for their local hubs. At the Big Sleep out event in September 2024, I read the poem at Chichester Cathedral. I wanted to write a poem that conveyed the positive...
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 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 | Jun 3, 2024 | Poems
The Escape Artist by Mike Jenkins This piece was written during the Open-Mic at The Escapist bar in Chichester, on Thursday 30th May and performed on the same night. The music here does not to do justice to the fantastic improvised guitar underscore provided by Jack...
