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Mick Jenkinson is a poet, songwriter, musician & freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He is a member of a number of community groups whose aims are to increase arts engagement in the Doncaster region and he delivers song writing and poetry writing workshops. He was the director of Doncaster Folk Festival for 5 years and a founder member of the Ted Hughes Project in Hughes' childhood hometown of Mexborough.
He is founder and MC of Well Spoken, a monthly poetry performance evening held at Doncaster Brewery, and a founder member of the South Yorkshire poetry collective Read 2 Write, a group mentored by Ian Parks. His first pamphlet, A Tale to Tell, was published by Glasshead Press in 2017, followed by When the Waters Rise, published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019.
His poems have appeared in Pennine Platform, Dream Catcher, Dreich, Setu Mag, The Don and Dearne Collected Poems Vol 1, Black Bough Poetry's Christmas & Winter Anthology Vol 1, and Christmas & Winter Anthology Vol 2, the exhibition these poets, our kin / these poems, our stories in the Frenchgate Shopping Centre, Doncaster, The Northern Poetry Library's collaborative online work Poem of the North, and the book Tom's Territory by Terry Chipp.
In 2017 Mick formed a songwriting partnership with the poet Ian Parks and received an Arts Council commission resulting in the album of songs and poems about their locality, Songs of Our Town. Mick has since released two further favourably reviewed solo albums, When My Ship Puts out to Sea and The Wheel Keeps on Turning. Find him at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
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