Tom Jenks
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Performing a post-pandemic guide to life for poets with SJ Fowler at the European Camarade, Manchester, October 2021.

Gift giving and reading a selection from 1000 Proverbs with SJ Fowler at the Nemeses launch event in York.

A guide to the post-European age, with SJ Fowler at the European Camarade, Manchester, April 2019.

The wit and wisdom of Nigel Farage, with SJ Fowler at the European Poetry Festival, Manchester, April 2018.

A little Marjorie at Reverb, Edge Hill University, October 2017.

Crabtree: The Libretto at the King's Arms, Salford.

A complete performance of Crabtree at the King's Arms, Salford, part of the premiere of Crabtree: The Libretto.

A tour of the pubs of Manchester and Frodsham, with Sarah Clare Conlon, Leeds, 2017.

A tribute to Danny Dyer, with SJ Fowler, North by North West Poetry Tour, Manchester, January 2017.

An Oulipian Epithalamium, with Nathan Walker, North by North West Poetry Tour, York, January 2017.

Wrogowie poetry, with Malgorzata Lebda, part of the Enemies Project, March 2015.

More of 1,000 Proverbs with SJ Fowler, Liverpool, February 2015.

Notes for Otto Gross - a piece written and performed for the Kakania event at The Freud Museum, London, January 2015.

A Dull Afternoon - a conceptual piece written and performed for Carbaret Hrabal at the London Horse Hospital, July 2014.

150 or so of 1000 Proverbs with SJ Fowler at Hidden Door in Edinburgh, March 2014.

Seven Steel Mesostics for Bronwen Sleigh - a specially written piece in response to artwork at Hidden Door in Edinburgh, March 2014.

Chris McCabe and I lay down some onions at SJ Fowler's Camaradefest in October 2013.

Peter Barlow Edits - a recording of the piece I performed at Peter Barlow's Cigarette, August 2013.

Items launch - at The Town Hall Tavern in Manchester, May 2013.

Enemies of the South - Me, Chris McCabe and Sophie Herxheimer perform a selection from I Boris, mine and Chris' re-write of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. Chris is playing a multi-faced Boris Johnson, with an imaginary Thighmaster. Sophie is channeling the unquiet spirit of the iron lady. I am inhabited by both Ant and Dec, with a touch of helium. This performance was part of the Enemies of the South event organised by SJ Fowler at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol in April 2013.

Enemies of the North (2) - Steven Fowler and I perform a section of our 1000 Proverbs sequence at Manchester's Cornerhouse in March 2013.

Enemies of the North (1) - Chris McCabe and I perform a selection from our first three collaborations at Manchester's Cornerhouse in March 2013.

Camarade 4 - An earlier performance of I Boris, with Sophie Herxheimer, at The Rich Mix in London in February 2013. Chris and I are a Boris Johnson double bubble.

A short tribute to Anselm Hollo - A very short reading for SJ Fowler's archive.

Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot - A conceptual ode to Vladimir Putin, delivered via Google Android at the Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot event in the Lass o' Gowrie in September 2012

if p then q at The Betsey Trotwood - A performance at the Betsey Trotwood in London in September 2012 as part of the if p then q event.

Camarade at the Nova Festival - Philip Terry and I read our collaborative piece Footprints at the Nova Festival in Sussex, July 2012.

Camarade 3 - Chris McCabe and I perform part of Seaside Special, our set of literary seaside postcards, at The Rich Mix in London, July 2012.

Camarade 2 - Chris McCabe and I perform a section of our second collaboration at The Rich Mix in London, February 2012.

A cover of Stuart Mills - nowhere near enough people know about Stuart Mills. Here, I read a single poem for SJ Fowler's Covers project.

Camarade 1 - Chris McCabe and I perform part of our first collaboration, which later became Gnomes, at The Rich Mix in London, October 2011.

Recording of my performance at for the Station Stories project in Piccaddilly Station, Manchester in May 2011.
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