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S.M. Jenkin

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I write about the unspeakable and unspoken, sharing hidden and thrilling stories and histories. I am often inspired by the Medway valley and her stories.

I have performed nationally and internationally, including the London Poetry Cafe, City Lit, Dickens Festival, and Au Chat Noir in Paris. I have supported Lemn Sissay and Atilla the Stockbroker. My work has been included in various publications including Anti-Heroin Chic, Beyond The Acorn Door: An International Anthology of Poetry, Boyne Berries, City Without a Head, Dissonance Magazine, The Honest Forger: new poems and photographs for Iolo Morganwg, The Interpreter's House, the Mermaid, Please Hear What I Am Not Saying, and Safety in Numbers.

You can buy copies of my 'Fire in the Head' and
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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich
"I feel rejuvenated. I can use a lot of this book as inspiration for my life's work. Some of it is a little 1970s for me, but some of it rings so true, that I fear we haven't come very far at all since she wrote this. Like the precariousness of birth " Read more of this review »
Inside Alcatraz by Jim Quillen
"This was a story written by someone who was not an established or famous writer, but rather by a real-life ex-convict at one of the most notorious prisons in the U.S.
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Inside Alcatraz by Jim Quillen
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Having met this man when I toured Alcatraz in the mid 90's I was happy to read this book. At that time Quillen signed and gave me a very similar book he had written, with much the same information in it, although this book is a longer version o" Read more of this review »
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“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
Jo Godwin

Christopher Hitchens
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
Christopher Hitchens

Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire: Get Drunk
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without ceasing.

But what with? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.

And if, at some time, on the steps of a palace, in the green grass of a ditch, in the bleak solitude of your room, you are waking up when drunkenness has already abated, ask the wind, the wave, a star, the clock, all that which flees, all that which groans, all that which rolls, all that which sings, all that which speaks, ask them what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will reply: 'It is time to get drunk! So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk, and never pause for rest! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose!'
-- Charles Baudelaire, tr. Michael Hamburger
Charles Baudelaire, Twenty Prose Poems

Audre Lorde
“Your silence will not protect you.”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

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