I wrote a Substack post about my Marjorie poems. I tweeted one of these pieces every day between September 2016 and November 2018 and made them into books. More at tinyurl.com/fdajhaje
Tom Jenks
@tomjenksuk.bsky.social
Poetry, prose, publishing, art. https://tomjenks.uk/ https://substack.com/@tomjenks
More of the sentences I've been sharing every morning over on Substack. substack.com/@tomjenks
Looking forward to this at Cholrton Library on 21st August. A real Manchester institution (the reading series, not me).
I did my Brazilian Sonnets based on Browning. In the English Strain: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-e.... (3rd vid down: all about Boris Johnson.) EBB's eyes in Patricia's composite 'sonneteer'. Great to see Tom Jenks at them...
My THE ENGLISH STRAIN is published today by Shearsman
Hurrah! The English Strain is published today by Shearsman, available here: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Sheppard-Robert-c28271934?offse...
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Tom Jenks@tomjenksuk.bsky.social · last wk.New Substack post on visualising Sonnets for the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. tinyurl.com/32uywpat
New Substack post on visualising Sonnets for the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. tinyurl.com/32uywpat
All lines containing "count" in Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850).
Out now! The first title in Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images & poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. Buy the pamphlet + poster here: intergraphia.cargo.site/Vik-Shirley-...
Some 8 liners: goblins, waffles, sandwich toasters, butterscotch etc.
Relative letter frequency in The Odyssey, indicated by thickness of white wave, alphabetical, top to bottom.
I've been sharing sentences every day on Substack and thought I'd share a few here. Follow me at substack.com/@tomjenks if you like sentences or fancy giving them a try.
References to rain in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847), in order of occurrence.
Indented werewolf and potatoes poem. I've been writing a lot of pieces like these. I don't really know what I'm doing with them, but I enjoy just letting things happen and trusting poetry to thread them together.
Week 28 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.
All references to the moon and stars in One Thousand and One Nights, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton, in order of occurrence, starting at 12 o' clock position. Moon references shows in sequential phases.
Week 27 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.
References to Joseph's coat of many colours in the Book of Genesis, in order of occurrence, in the colours of the rainbow.
New post about visualising Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 3rd image is a variant of that which I shared earlier in the week, in vivid blue rather than cobalt. tinyurl.com/msf82esm
Week 26 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.
