WORKSHOPS
Experienced in designing & leading theatre, acting, and creative writing workshops, Mike can work with young people in schools and colleges and with adults in businesses and community groups.
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WRITING
Mike writes plays, scripts, poems, articles and blog posts and has a particular interest in writing about meditation and spiritual practice. Discover new and emerging work and get in touch if you’d like to collaborate.
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PERFORMANCES
View details of upcoming events where Mike will be performing, find out how to hire him as a speaker or a performer for an event and read about some of the productions he has appeared in over the years.
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POEMS
Read and listen to selection of original poems here, purchase a copy of Mike’s first full collection of Selected Poems and connect with Words Out Loud.
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You Are Better Than My Pen
A 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 collection of poetry from Mike Jenkins mixes the numinal with the everyday, the earthy with the spiritual, and the romantic with the carnal.
With stories of hope, love, and happiness in fleeting moments, and pain, longing, and despair in others, these poems are never less than beautiful, honest, and breathtakingly original – sharing the voices of mothers, fathers, lovers, and – at times – of darkness itself. But at the heart of this collection is a simple idea: trying to capture the essence of moments that are sometimes more powerful than the pen.
