He is currently Co-Director of the Creative Writing program at Swansea University. He won the Wales Book of the Year Award for Khasia in Gwalia, about Welsh missionaries in the Khasi Hills of north-east India (1996). With humour, insight and an eye for the odd and the unusual, Jenkins explores. In Real Swansea Two Nigel Jenkins takes a further look at the people, places and history of Swansea, starting from his own experiences of Waless second. Gower, his book of essays about the Gower peninsula, with photographer David Pearl, was published in 2009. Welsh poet Nigel Jenkins returns to Swansea for another look at his hometown. Nigel Jenkins is a poet, prose writer and editor of the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (2008). From Dylan Thomas’ Kardomah café, the Grand Theatre and the Welsh School of Architectural, to Mumbles Pier, Llangyfelach and Salubrious Passage, all Swansea life is here, celebrated in stylish prose and pin-sharp poetry. Nigel Jenkins, much loved bard of Gower and Wales, choreographed his own funeral as performance art. Jenkins’s subjects include sport, the Welsh language, drama, sex, drugs, refugees and asylum seekers, key buildings like the Guildhall, the Glynn Vivian and the National Waterfront Museum, and the districts of Morriston, the Hafod and Sandfields. John Osmond reports from Pennard where Nigel Jenkins was laid to rest on Monday. With humour, insight and an eye for the odd and the unusual, Jenkins explores the areas of the city that fall beyond the gaze of the original Real Swansea (Seren, 2008). Welsh poet Nigel Jenkins returns to Swansea for another look at his hometown.

Real Swansea Two by Nigel Jenkins