Tom Jenks’ second collection is an open system interaction with the world and all its contingencies. Using fragments from mass media, signage, management doublethink and myriad other sources, the work slips between inner and outer worlds as they suggest themselves, with the * symbol acting as a wildcard to select everything that is the case.
£8, if p then q, May 2010 (72 pages)
ISBN 978-0-9558641-6-2
Thursday 15 April, 2010 tagged Openned in Alec Newman, Alex Davies, Boris Jardine, James Davies, Linus Slug, Marcus Slease, Mike Weller, Richard Barrett, Scott Thurston, Steve Willey, Tom Jenks 
The Openned Zine is setting out with one intention: to provide poets, publishers and organisers with a space to publicly present explanations, thoughts, ideas and opinions that may not necessarily be representative of a final response.
The intention is to draw attention to how poetry and the thoughts and activities based on and around it are an ongoing and necessarily ever-changing set of boundaries and equivalent freedoms, which provide a shifting map of communities of poets.
Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:
Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.
Monday 12 April, 2010 tagged UK Events in Geof Huth, Joy as Tiresome Vandalism, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Tom Jenks ;)
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You can also read an interview with Tom Jenks, co-founder of The Other Room, at 3:AM Magazine, and read details of the forthcoming The Other Room Anthology 2009/2010 at The Other Room website. More details as and when it is printed.
Monday 16th November, 8pm
The Octagon Theatre, Howell Croft South, Bolton BL1 1SB
Admission £4 / £2 (conc.)
A limited number of free tickets for under 26s are available for this event. Contact the ticket office for more details on 01204 520661.
Thursday 12 November, 2009 tagged UK Events in James Davies, Nick Thurston, Scott Thurston, Sophie Robinson, Tom Jenks Wednesday 2nd December, 7pm
The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester M15 6AY
Admission free.
Tuesday 10 November, 2009 tagged Publications in Jim Goar, Richard Barrett, Steven Waling, Tom Jenks, William Garvin The final issue of Tom Jenks's excellent Parameter magazine is now available from the Parameter website, featuring:
£3.50
via The Other Room
Friday 7 August, 2009 in Frances Kruk, James Davies, Scott Thurston, Sean Bonney, Tom Jenks The Other Room, 05/08/09 (AAC, 35min, 8MB) The Other Room, the Manchester reading series run by Tom Jenks, James Davies and Scott Thurston, took place last night, featuring Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk. You can listen and/or download a recording of the entire first half above. Please note the actual reading starts about five minutes into the recording. You can also read a review of the evening by Matt Dalby, and see some photos by Tony Trehy and Richard Barrett (Richard also has some words coming soon). Sean and Frances were excellent, as expected.
Saturday 4 April, 2009 in James Davies, Lisa Samuels, Phil Davenport, Scott Thurston, Tom Jenks The Other Room, 01/04/09 (AAC, 17min, 7MB) A recording of the latter part of the second half of The Other Room reading featuring Phil Davenport and Lisa Samuels, which took place in the Old Abbey Inn, Manchester on Wednesday 1st April 2009. Unfortunately I was unable to catch any of Tim Atkins' reading due to the lacklustre recording equipment available to me at the time. The Other Room is organised by James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston.
Tuesday 28 October, 2008 in Alex Davies, Allen Fisher, Amy Evans, Andrew Nightingale, Anna Ticehurst, Brooklyn Copeland, Chris Paul, Hacked By Krishna, Hannah Silva, James Davies, James Harvey, James Wilkes, Jow Lindsay, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Marianne Morris, Mike Weller, Morton Hurley, Nikki Dudley, Ross Kerr, Spencer Selby, Tom Jenks, Trini Decombe 
edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies
Published: Oct 08
Publisher: Openned Press
Format: PDF
Price: £free
View free: PDF (6.5MB)
The Openned issue is a digital magazine series based on your work interacting with a concept, theme, object - anything we feel will inspire dialogue amongst poets. Every issue will last for three months in a state of flux, constantly added to and modified, accommodating work that falls under the brief, or work written in response to other poets.Between 2006 and 2007, we created three of these issues for Openned.com. With revisions to the site and limitations of space and time, they were temporarily removed. Now the poetry has been collected and is sited in this publication. Poets featured in this publication:
