Tom Jenks
@tomjenksuk
Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
Indented werewolf and potatoes poem. I've been writing a lot of pieces like these. I don't really know what I'm doing with them, but I enjoy just letting things happen and trusting poetry to thread them together.
New post on visualising the One Thousand and One Nights. tomjenks.substack.com/p/so-scheher...
All references to the moon and stars in One Thousand and One Nights, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton, in order of occurrence, starting at 12 o' clock position. Moon references shows in sequential phases.
New post on visualising the biblical story of Joseph. More at open.substack.com/pub/tomjenks...
References to Joseph's coat of many colours in the Book of Genesis, in order of occurrence, in the colours of the rainbow.
New post about visualising Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 3rd image is a variant of that which I shared earlier in the week, in vivid blue rather than cobalt. tinyurl.com/msf82esm
Words containing all the letters of the word "water" in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798), in order of occurrence. Direct references to water are in solid blue.
New Substack post on visualising Mrs Beeton, also mentioning the brilliant work of @sophieherx.bsky.social More at tinyurl.com/3f4pa2t7
Words containing every letter of "ice-cream" in Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery (1865). Direct references to ice-cream in white.
New post on visualising A Midsummer Night's Dream. More at tinyurl.com/357mxun2
All references to sleep and sleeping in A Midsummmer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
New post on visualising Ophelia’s mentions of plants and flowers in Hamlet. tinyurl.com/yw67ana8
New post about visualising Paradise Lost. tomjenks.substack.com/p/what-is-da...
Words containing every letter of the word "angel" in Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667). Direct references to angels highlighted in gold.
New post about visualising dreams in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. More at tinyurl.com/3496cpjr
[1] Mentions of dreams and dreaming in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865). [2] Words containing all the letters of 'dream', in order of occurrence.