Hello

I took this photo from a rooftop of a multi-storey residential building off Nathan Road in Kowloon, Hong Kong in the summer of 2019. The lit-up doormat, bright red with gilded traditional script across it, is illuminated beside a loose pair of briefs or pyjama bottoms. Although upside down, it reads ‘Welcome’.

I started writing in Hong Kong. Since then, I have built up a body of work that is growing, and hopefully it never stops doing that. This website features all my creative work, published writing, radio shows, audio projects, and essays.

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Charlie Jermyn

The Boy, The Bucket and The Persistent Tide

My debut book ‘The Boy, The Bucket and The Persistent Tide.’ Published by Bog Bodies Press, released December 2025.

Available in your local independent bookshop.

Audiobook out now.

mnemotope

I write for the quarterly publication ‘mnemotope’ produced by Bog Bodies Press.

Mnemotope 002 - Published prose called ‘Lugworms under the mirage’

Mnemotope 004 - Published prose called ‘The Passage of Pallets’

Mnemotope 007 - Published prose called ‘Diving Bells in Sludge’

Mnemotope 008 - Published prose called ‘Burial of the Goldfish’

I collaborated with the artist Una Jongenelis over three days to create, write and illustrate a story: ‘Curious Dot, The Truth Is In The Hole’

Artists Jonghwan Jeong and Cato Douwes Dekker joined us. Released November 14th 2025.

The Curious Dot: The Truth is in the hole

Transcript Issue One

The essay Elsewhere, Walking in the Peatlands documents a ten-hour experiment conducted in August 2021: a walk from Leiden to Amsterdam in search of creative enlightenment.

Listen to a recording here

I interspersed each hour with music that reflected the landscape and circumstances in which I found myself. I hope you enjoy it. Lace up your boots, join my past self and my current self, my afterthoughts, on a stroll through the Groene Hart.

In the words of Bob Dylan in ‘My Back Pages’ —

“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.’

More Poetry is Needed

I am a monthly resident at Stranded FM Utrecht with my show 'More Poetry is Needed'

Listen back to all 20 shows

Each show I take a poet or poets part of a certain movement and discuss their cultural impact and imprint on a place in time: Music, poetry and personal reflections.

The show name is based on an artwork by Jeremy Deller (picture above), commissioned as part of a Dylan Thomas 100 project [Pictured] More Poetry is Needed is plastered on a wide wall at the back end of Swansea's Quadrant Shopping Centre. A reminder to commercial shoppers and the lines of parked cars: everybody and everywhere could do with more poetry.