Union Poetry Competition. His work has featured on ABC Radio National's Airplay and Poetica series. His recent collection, Growing Up With Mr Menzies, (2008) has been described as "a complex, layered and original work". His latest collection, Poems Far and Wide (2019) has also been widely and very positively reviewed. Bibliography Poetry Zone of the White Wolf and Other Landscapes (Contempa, 1974) Blind Spot (Makar, 1977) The Inland Sea (Brunswick Hills Press, 1984) Chromatic Cargoes (Post Neo Publication, 1986) Airborne Dogs, With Ken Bolton (Brunswick Hills, 1988) The Ferrara Poems, With Ken Bolton (Experimental Art Foundation, 1989) The Wild White Sea (Little Esther Books, 1990) Days Like Air (Modern Writing Press, 1992) The Gutman Variations, With Ken Bolton (Little Esther Books, 1993) The Wallah Group, With Ken Bolton (Little Esther Books, 2001) A Break in the Weather, verse novel (Modern Writing Press, 2002) Nutters Without Fetters, With Ken Bolton (PressPress, 2002) Dark River (Five Islands Press, 2003) Gwendolyn Windswept, verse novel, With Ken Bolton (serialised in Otis Rush magazine) Poems of Relative Unlikelihood, With Ken Bolton (Little Esther Books, 2005) Growing Up With Mr Menzies (John Leonard Press, 2008) Poems Far and Wide (Puncher & Wattmann, 2019) Short fiction The Arthur Tantrum Letters, With Robert Harris, written under pseudonyms O. Der and M. Slipteal (Stitch and Time Books, 1975) Non fiction 22 Contemporary Australian Composers (NMA Publications, 1988) Arias, Recent Australian Music Theatre, With Rainer Linz (Red House Editions, 1997) Travelers' tales of Old Cuba: from Treasure Island to Mafia Den, as editor (Ocean Press, 2002 & 2010) Anthologies Dreamrobe Embroideries and Asparagus for Dinner, co-editor with Walter Billeter (The Paper Castle, 1974) Cheeries & Quartermasters, co-editor with David Miller (The Paper Castle, 1975) The Outback Reader, co-editor with Michael Dugan (Outback Press, 1975) Soft Lounges, the 2nd Fringe Anthology, co-editor with Antonia Bruns (Fringe Network/Champion Books, 1984) Eclogues, Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2007, co-editor with Martin Harrison and Jan Owen (Hunter Writers' Centre, 2007) References External links 22 Contemporary Australian Composers (NMA Publications, 1988) published online: http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/22CAC/TOC.html Travelers' Tales of Old Cuba: from Treasure Island to Mafia Den (2002), Introduction and list of contents, at http://www.oceanbooks.com.au/product/travelers-tales-of-old-cuba/ Radio play, synopsis of Under The Shaded Blossom, by John Jenkins, at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/stories/2006/1630530.htm Poetica episodes featuring John Jenkins poetry http://search.abc.net.au//search/search.cgi?form=poetica&num_tiers=1&num_ranks=20&collection=rn&query=John+jenkins&form=poetica&meta_v=%2Brn/poetica/stories The Lobster and The Brick, long poem https://web.archive.org/web/20110301142227/http://www.radio.adelaide.edu.au/writersradio/podcast/wr1037.mp3 Cold Press, poem http://artsrush.com.au/?page_id=192 Growing Up With Mr Menzies, quotes http://www.johnleonardpress.com/?id=27211058#jenkins John Jenkins, Home Page