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 Walles 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 is The Fugitive Three, a novella published by Cinammon Press.
Look out for Moor Music, Mike's collection of open field poetry, coming soon from Seren.
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.