Thanks for visiting my website. Here’s where I tell you a little about what I do, and why.

So… poetry rather than music is taking precedence in my world for a while.

If you had told me even a couple of years ago that I would ever have a full collection of poems published, I would have dismissed it as a dream, but here it is - Iron Harvest, published by Cyberwit, available at Waterstones and Amazon, and gathering pretty positive reviews:

“Jenkinson’s poems are sharp and sincere. They conjure memories while expertly turning words into dreams or adventures or thoughts or even perhaps real-life experiences. He has assembled a book of poems that beckons to the reader.” – Pegasus Literary Journal.

Now the biography bit...

I’m a songwriter, musician, and poet based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Music and words have run in my veins for as long as I remember. I first picked up a guitar when some friends at school took a poem of mine and set it to music; my reaction was ‘I want to do that!’

Although I grew up with ‘70’s rock music, my prime influences have always been wordsmiths, Dylan, Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, to name the obvious ones, as well as poetry and traditional music.

COIL

With some great friends and fine musicians we formed the band Coil in the early ‘80’s. Our first album, Blood Money was very well-received took us on a national tour from Sheffield City Hall to London’s legendary Marquee Club.

After a long hiatus and remarkable chance encounters, Coil reformed to release the successful follow up album Cold Truth in 2017, and with three original members, we continue to play and record.

JENKINSON-PARKS

I was playing songs at the Ted Hughes Poetry Festival in 2015 when the wonderful poet Ian Parks approached me to ask if I would collaborate with him. We embarked on a long-running project to collect local stories and write songs chronicling the loves, lives and landscapes of Doncaster, which culminated in the album, Songs of Our Town.

This is a partnership that shows no signs of losing its potency, and indeed half the songs on the new CD were written with Ian.

POETRY

Music and poetry flow in and out of each other for me, but I have had the good fortune to have my first full collection of poems called Iron Harvest published in January 2025, by Cyberwit. It brings together selected poems from my two previous pamphlets; A Tale to Tell, released by Glasshead Press in 2017 and When the Waters Rise released by Calder Valley Poets in 2019.

And for many years I have run a monthly poetry performance evening at Doncaster Brewery and Tap. Well Spoken is held at on the second Thursday of each month; come along and say hello!

COMMUNITY WORK