Jenny Hockey Poetry
Publications
My debut collection, Going to Bed with the Moon was published by Oversteps Books in 2019. Copies can now be obtained by sending me a message via the contact form on this site.
My poems have also appeared in print magazines such as Magma, The North, Obsessed with Pipework, Dreich, Grey Sparrow, Orbis, Iota, Southlight, Neon Highway, Obsessed with Pipework, Pennine Platform, Poetry Salzburg, South, Spelt, The New Writer, The Journal, The Seventh Quarry, The Frogmore Papers, The Dawntreader, Fenland Poetry Journal, Dreamcatcher, Route 57, Popshots, Artemis, The Cannon's Mouth and The Interpreters House. Recent poems online include:
The Interpreter's House
'Forgive us Gaston' https://theinterpretershouse.org/hockey-83
'When I lived alone among others' https://theinterpretershouse.org/hockey-80
Ink, Sweat and Tears
'That's when she went to ground' (https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/?s=jENNY+HOCKEY)
'With Grandad gone'
(https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/?s=jenny+hockey+with+grandad+gone)
'Bonding' (https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/?s=jenny+hockey+bonding)
'Holiday Cottage', (https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/jenny-hockey/)
'Snowfall',(https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/jenny-hockey-2/)
Morphrog
'I used to worry about the dark', 'Rydal Hall', 'Whatever happened to lunch', 'Next door's forsythia' (https://www.morphrog.com/m32-jenny-hockey/)
'A wicket in the gutter', 'A space between stones', 'St Malo' (https://www.morphrog.com/jenny-hockey-m30/)
'Borrowing Rights', 'A few trees back', 'Not working from home' 'Manningtree', The monkey mind', 'Breakthrough' (https://www.morphrog.com/jenny-hockey-3/)
'Instrumental', 'Cambridge, June 1969', 'Mr Randal's Sketchbook', 'The Weight of Oneself' (http://www.morphrog.com/m26-jenny-hockey/)
Grey Sparrow -
'Anchored' (https://grey-sparrow-press.com/202546-anchored-jenny-hockey/)
'It's Saturday' (https://grey-sparrow-press.com/202444-its-saturday-jenny-hockey/)
'Happened to be passing' (https://grey-sparrow-press.com/37-happened-to-be-passing-jenny-hockey/)
Toasted Cheese
'Change of Heart', 'Shows you the colours', 'September', 'Thursday morning'
(https://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/2023/23-1/four-poems-by-jenny-hockey/)
'Eltisley Avenue', 'He was a good person'
(https://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/2022/22-2/two-poems-by-jenny-hockey-2/)
'Weaned', 'Lost for Words''
(https://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/2021/21-3/two-poems-by-jenny-hockey/)
'Souvenir'
(https://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/2021/21-1/souvenir-by-jenny-hockey/)
Anthologies
No Holds Barred, The Raving Beauties (The Women's Press, 1985)
The Sheffield Anthology. Poems from the City Imagined, A.Lehoczky, A.Piette, A.Sansom & P.Sansom (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2012)
Journey to Crone, S.Philip (Chuffed Buff Books Ltd, 2013)
Love, Hexameter (Susan Wallace, Richard Tedstone, Celia McCulloch, Phil Dunn, Jenny Hockey) Copies can also be obtained by sending me a message via the contact form on this site.