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Alex Jenkins

@alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social

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Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · Sep 2

Available now to pre-order!

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/anthology

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 4h

It's true: I haven't said anything about this for days and days. But in the midst of this Ic3-y season, you might find a ray of something different, maybe hope, herein. Soon, soon! ❤️

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 8d

Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

The distributor’s search result for a book with a light blue cover with yellow type:

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 17h

Just all foreplay with Pete. Heavy prospecting, no actual mining.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 17h

Sadly for Pete, my immediate thought was that he never gets any action himself, but always walks in on other people.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 17h

Real missed opportunity to use the headline "What a piece of work is Pam."

Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 19h

If you missed the chance to throw things at your television yesterday while listening to the testimony of AG Pam Bondi, here’s my recap and analysis of the most telling parts. Her evasions and attacks strongly suggest she’s hiding something and protecting people. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Pam Bondi Is a Piece of Work

And it’s clearer than ever that she sees her job as covering for and protecting criminals within the Trump regime.

open.substack.com

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 17h

You do not want to ask either of them what they mean by Eton mess.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 17h

I did laugh at the first thing listed under Features:

"Status: Available"

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 18h

Now that's poetry.

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 18h

In the blankness of his eyes
And the juddering of his thighs
Now the splutters of defeat
Emanating from his meat

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 18h

I do not want Tony's special frosting, thank you.

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 18h

Tony definitely has a dodgy apartment in Hell's Kitchen.

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 18h

Agreed. I'm now picturing Christian Bale in American Psycho.

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 18h

What are your thoughts, if any, on Tony the Tiger? I think he'd be very selfish in the sack.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 18h

Also, Dispatches, Michael Herr

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 18h

Hell's Angels, Hunter S. Thompson

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 19h

The eternal question: does the car blatting round the estate have a performance exhaust or a ruined one? It could, of course, conceivably be both.

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 21h

Why let basic research get in the way of a grievance?

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 22h

Tl;dr - Others don't have to do the thing I did and I'm mad about it.

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 22h

Really struggling to imagine 1) caring enough about this in the first place, but 2) even granting the first premise, believing this convenience constitutes fraud.

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 22h

No, it's driving
www.spectator.co.uk/article/driv...

Driving an automatic car is cheating

Most of the time cheating is frowned upon, but a quarter of all driving tests in Britain are now taken in automatic cars and apparently that’s fine. The trend is only set to continue, too, as more and...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

Berlin pals, this is happening tomorrow! Please come along. The book is great and Tim is very funny and eloquent. It’ll be nice.

Me and Tim MacGabhann talking about his memoir THE BLACK POOL at Shakespeare and Sons on Oct 9th 18:45

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 1d

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

draughtjournal.com

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 1d

You want to *see* my notes? My special notey guys? Oh no no no. They live in my special metaphorical folder.

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 1d

*Checks notes* is such a great online expression, because it implies a degree of rigour that is unverifiable.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, I'll see what I can find. What's best for you: DM here or send you an email?

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 1d

Just checked, and it turns out I do (though don't remember acquiring it).

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