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Tom Jenks
@tomjenksuk.bsky.social
Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
After some time out of print, zimzalla has a new batch of INDEX by @sophieherx.bsky.social (a deck of prophetic poem cards in a luxury red and gold box) back on sale. More at zimzalla.co.uk/060-sophie-h...
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Week 46 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a triple hot shot of hot honey.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Week 45 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, pancakes and more pancakes.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Week 44 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week Christmas meets Halloween uptown, or rather in suburbia.
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Annual true north Hallowe'en carved swede post.
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
To mark Hallowe'en, all the words beginning with "r" or "b" in Tam o' Shanter by Robert Burns (1790), colour-coded, in order of occurrence.
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Week 43 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarked reduced counter this year. Plant Chef Festive Feasts come earlier every year.
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Very pleased to have a poem up at Ghost Furniture Catalogue, from my Mum & Dad sequence. Thanks to Bill Herbert and @sophieherx.bsky.social

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Tom Jenks: from ‘Mum & Dad’
‘Exciting opportunities make me tired’ Dad complains,‘like board games, opera, or the countryside.’Dad just wants to drink Tizer and remember things,like when the nuns learned to roller skateor the…
ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nearly Halloween.
October 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Week 42 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, multiples.
October 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
All words beginning with 'k' in The Trial by Franz Kafka, in order of occurrence, delineated by colour.
October 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
October 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Week 41 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. How do you make milk roll? Push it down a hill.
October 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Started to put a few things up on my Substack, a mere 2 years after I created it. Here, if you're interested: tomjenks.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
October 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Week 40 of documenting everything I buy at the reduced counter this year. Smashed my teeth last week, so food largely in soft focus.
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
October 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Week 40 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, mini muffin bookends.
October 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Week 39 of documenting everything I buy from the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, a big week for hummus chips.
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
September 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Week 38 of documenting everything I buy at the supermarket reduced counter this year. This week, troglodyte stuff.
September 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
September 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM