![]() ![]() Jenkins would go on to publish several collections of poetry over the course of his life, including, in 2002, the first haiku collection from a Welsh publisher ( Blue: 101 Haiku, Senryu and Tanka). ![]() In 1976, he was given an Eric Gregory Award by the Society of Authors. Jenkins first came to prominence as one of the Welsh Arts Council's Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (the title of a 1974 collection featuring Jenkins, Tony Curtis and Duncan Bush – all winners of the Council's Young Poets Prize). He was educated at the University of Essex. Jenkins was born on 20 July 1949 in Gorseinon, Wales, and was brought up on a farm on the former Kilvrough estate on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea. He was an editor, journalist, psychogeographer, broadcaster and writer of creative non-fiction, as well as being a lecturer at Swansea University and director of the creative writing programme there. Nigel Jenkins (20 July 1949 – 28 January 2014) was an Anglo-Welsh poet. ![]()
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