"Girl has empty baskets, blooming sky. Girl has moon full of pink atoms in her hands, full of pale, full of long-time-ago. So solid it must have soul." Pythagoras said "There is a good principle that created order, light, and man and a bad principle that created chaos, darkness, and woman." The poems in Moon Too Heavy explore many of the ways in which women carry this weight, and how they might find it in themselves one day to cast it off. "Jac Jenkins’ work has guts and intellect and a deep current of physical delight. These are fiery and thinking poems" – Anna Smaill

“It is near noon in the orchard and small passions of petals are bursting spring into the air. Or perhaps it’s mid-afternoon …” What happens when two sisters, who grew up under a cinder-cone mountain, put their writing talents together? The answer is Scoria—a compilation of short prose pieces, exploring the scoriac “small bubbles and glassy fragments” of life. To purchase, please contact me directly using the contact form.

"Seven poets who met, stayed and departed from Whangārei." A collaboration with other members of the Take Flight writing group - Michelle Elvy, Arthur Fairley, Vaughan Gunson, Piet Nieuland, Martin Porter and Aaron Roberstson.

Fast Fibres Poetry - Awakening Fast Fibres Poetry - A light pantoum Fast Fibres Poetry - Un- Fast Fibres Poetry - Immortal make Fast Fibres Poetry 2 - The perfect fifth Fast Fibres Poetry 3 - The sword in the stone Fast Fibres Poetry 4 - letter to the girl with purple hair Fast Fibres Poetry 5 - Aposiopesis Fast Fibres Poetry 5 - Unrequited Fast Fibres Poetry 6 - Eye catching Fast Fibres Poetry 7 - Wabi-sabi in Paekākā Fast Fibres Poetry 8 - When I am dead Fast Fibres Poetry 8 - Awash

Appeared in Landfall 235 (NZ). Written for my MA thesis, Negative Space, Nails alludes to the judgement that mothers face all too regularly.

Appeared in Room 42.2 (Canada) Written for my MA thesis, Negative space, and in honour of Émilie du Châtelet, a French natural philosopher and mathematician in the 1700s.

Appeared in Geometry 5 (NZ) A poem of a somewhat circular nature ...

Appeared in Turbine | Kapohau (NZ) Midnight with bottle is a poem in the Glosa form; a form in which lines are borrowed from another poem, and treated in a specific way.

First place in the Wintec National Poetry Day Competition 2014 (NZ). Appeared online in Hamilton Poetry Day Friday 22 August 2014 (NZ) and in the book, Ngā Kupu Waikato: An Anthology of Waikato Poetry (NZ).

Appeared in Ngā Ripo Wai | Swirling Waters (NZ) - to purchase please contact me directly. All the words in this poem were taken from Kerikeri real estate listings in one issue of the Far North Real Estate publication.

In Side-by-Side: Poets and Artists Collaboration, an exhibition at Domain House, Te Aroha (NZ) This poem was a response to a painting by Elizabeth Barton.

First place in the takahē 2013 Poetry Competition (NZ). Appeared in the print journal takahē 80 (NZ), the book Dancing on Air: 21 Years ofNorthTec Applied Writing (NZ), and online in Tuesday Poem (NZ/International). This poem is dedicated to Christine de Pizan, Europe's first feminist.

A collaborative work with Julia Barber. Appeared in Ngā Ripo Wai | Swirling Waters (NZ)

Long-listed in the Autumn 2021 Reflex Flash Fiction Competition (UK/International). Appeared in In Defence of Pseudoscience (UK).

Highly commended and Northland Regional Prizewinner in the 2012 NFFD Competition (NZ/International) Appeared in Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand and Flash Frontier (NZ)

Paper doctor (in Penguin Days) In flame (in The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation) Thyme for stew (haiku - winner of the 2019 Jeanette Stace Memorial Award; in The Perfect Weight of Blankets at Night) Winter weathered hands (haiku - commended in the 2020 NZPS Haiku Competition; in Stay Well Here) Raising the fire (commended in the 2021 NZPS International Poetry Competition; in Kissing a Ghost) Slam (commended in the 2021 NZPS International Poetry Competition; in Kissing a Ghost) Listening for spirits (commended in the 2022 NZPS International Poetry Competition; in alarm & longing)

Head candy: romancing glaucine Self-portrait in the style of Juan Gris (also in Scoria) Pearl diver Tulips and chimneys (also in Scoria) Ten days till I see you again (second place-getter in Whangārei District Libraries' Flash Fiction Competition 2020) To purchase, please email directly via the link provided.

Second place in 2010 New Hats National Poetry Day in Northland Competition (NZ). Published in Glow Worm (NZ).

A Personal Letter The Occupation Mana (a flash version also in Scoria under the title A dog called Mana)

Fold Wallace Stevens examines modern poetry

Try a different standpoint (long-listed in the 2021 NFFD Competition) At a table, alone (short-listed in the 2021 Micro Madness Competition) Small spinning wind (short-listed in the 2020 Micro Madness Competition) Mount Alpha (long-listed in the 2019 NFFD Competition; also in Scoria) Use three-dimensional characters (long-listed in 2019 NFFD Competition; also in Scoria) Pearl diver (short-listed in the 2019 Micro Madness Competition) Stigmeology (short-listed in the 2017 Micro Madness Competition) Settlement (commended in the 2016 NFFD Competition; also in Scoria) Virtuose (long-listed and Northland Regional Prize winner in the 2014 NFFD Competition; also in Scoria) Coffee Date (long-listed and Northland Regional Prize winner in the 2013 NFFD Competition; also in Scoria) Possum Hunt (highly commended and Northland Regional Prize winner in the 2012 NFFD Competition; also in Bonsai and Scoria) Held Fast (also in Scoria) Thin Places (also in Scoria) Leaving Here (also in Scoria) All arms (also in Take Flight) Fallen (also in Scoria under the title When plump berries fall)

Appeared in Blog Carnival 4; Flash Across Borders (NZ/Germany) At the time I wrote this, I was pleased with the title, but now its bad grammar annoys me :-)

Appeared in Te Kohu: Poems (NZ) This poem was written for a national poetry competition with the theme 'mist'. The book contains poems entered into this competition.

Appeared in the exhibition, Reactor: Poetry and Art (NZ) (also in Take Flight) This poem was a response to an artwork by Cathy Tuato’o Ross

…for a Coffee/Cups (first equal Northwrite 2013 Collaborative Competition, NZ) In the Forest, by the Stream/Shade (second equal Northwrite 2013 Collaborative Competition, NZ) A Ghost at My Shoulder (second equal Northwrite 2013 Collaborative Competition, NZ)