by Mike Jenkins | Jul 16, 2026 | Poems, Writing
Sun Over England from Mexico 2026Mike Jenkins 16th July, 2026 4am the sun came upall over England as if inaftermath of a miscaluated warmen, women and childrenstumbled bleary eyed through the daythinking perhaps:is this what is was all for? This lighta certain kind of...
by Mike Jenkins | Jun 11, 2026 | Audio, Poems, Writing
Audio Recording Belfast by Mike Jenkins https://michaeljenkins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Belfast-Mike-Jenkins-Thurs-11th-June.mp3 You Are Better Than My Pen A powerful new voice in contemporary verse. From the streets of a Belfast childhood to wandering in...
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...
