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Stopping for Stoppard
23:17 Stopping for Stoppard Saturday 4th April 2026 Listening to Tom Stoppard (1937-2025) on R4, the programme is Archive on 4, Tom Stoppard: Verbatim.This weekend there is and has been a celebration of his life and work. I've listened to some of the programmes and...
Mothering Heights
Audio Recording You Are Better Than My PenA powerful new voice in contemporary verse. From the streets of a Belfast childhood to wandering in Downtown New York, from meditations on life in rural, cathedral-town Sussex to the deep, flowing rivers of desire, this first...
There’s a Place for Stonepillow
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...
Ships (in Leonard’s Yard)
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 subtitle, 'in Leonards...
Memory Was Like Water
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...
The Baffling Case of the Bognor Bureau
The Baffling Case of the Bognor Bureau Originally written for The Bognor Regis Heritage Partnership as part of their Tales with a Twist short story competition and was first performed by TV and stage actress, Jean Rogers. The monologue won joint 3rd prize. Mr R...
Mostly Empty Space… Victorious!
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 of cups...
The Caretaker – Chichester Festival Theatre in Good Hands
This production of The Caretaker by Harold Pinter demonstrates how vital theatre is for reflecting our world back to us, to hold a mirror up to nature (our nature as humans in particular) and to sit alongside it, to witness it and let that world speak to us.The play...
Mother’s Pride Audio
On this day in June 2006 (18 years ago) I had just come home from 9 days in hospital after a 12 hour operation for mouth cancer. All I remember from that weekend was eating a roast dinner in my mum’s garden with my plate of food blended (on the strict instructions...
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The Escape Artist
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...
Ominous – A Monologue, Written and Performed by Mike Jenkins
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 other. "... things were getting weird; a series of drownings in the lake near his home, a 1972 VW Beetle filled with copies of Das Kapital and set...
Writing Credits
Plays
Mike’s plays have all been written specifically for performance and are currently unpublished. Please make any enquiries about scripts for production via the Contact Page.
The Well of Lost Voices (2023)
A Picture of Alchemy (2008)
The Box (2005)