Publications

Mike Jenkins has written numerous volumes of poetry and short stories.In 1998 he won the Wales Book of the Year Award for his collection of interlinked short stories, Wanting to Belong, about teenagers living in a South Wales Valley. The book was the inspiration for a one-off drama for the BBC and a schools programme on Channel 4.
   His most recent work for teenagers is The Climbing Tree, a novella published by Pont.

His latest book of poetry is 'Moor Music, Mike's collection of open field poetry, out now from Seren.

Next up is 'Barkin!', poems & stories in Merthyr dialect (Carreg    Gwalch)

Mike's Books

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2007   -     The Fugitive Three (Cinnamon Press)............novel
                Feature on The Fugitive Three in the Western Mail

2006   -     Walking on Waste (Carreg Gwalch)..............poetry
                Article on Walking on Waste from the Merthyr Express

2005   -    Child of Dust (Gomer)..........short & shorter fiction

2004   -    The Language of Flight (Carreg Gwalch).......poetry

2004   -    Poems for Underage Thinkers (Pont )..........poems for children

2002   -    Laughter Tangled in Thorn (Carreg Gwlach).......selected poems

2002   -    Barbsmashive (Pont)...........novella for children

2001   -    Coulda bin summin (Planet)......poems in dialect
               Review of Coulda bin summin on BBC Online

1999   -    Red Landscapes (Seren).........new & selected poems

1997   -    Wanting To Belong (Seren)........short stories
               Winner of Wales Book of the Year 1998

1995   -    This House, My Ghetto (Seren).......poetry

1994   -    Are You Talking To Me? (Pont)....poetry for teenagers, with four other poets

1994   -   Graffiti Narratives (Planet).......poetry & stories in Merthyr dialect

1990   -   A Dissident Voice (Seren)..........poetry

1986   -   Invisible Times (Poetry Wales Press).......poetry

1984   -   The Valleys (Poetry Wales Press)........anthology of poetry & prose from south Wales Valleys, co-edited               with John Davies

1983   -   Empire of Smoke (Poetry Wales Press).........poetry

1981   -   The Common Land (Poetry Wales Press).......poetry

1981   -   In Enemy Territory (Edge Press)......stories

1979   -   Rat City (Edge Press)................poetry.