Hello
I took this adjacent 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.
— Charlie Jermyn
My debut book, ‘The Boy, The Bucket and The Persistent Tide.’ Published by Bog Bodies Press. To be released in December 2025.
“The Netherlands has been the home of Irishman Charlie Jermyn for the last 5 years; it’s a nation that has been dredged up from the water and which attempts, to this day, to hold back the persistent tide.
After moving to the Netherlands in his early twenties, Charlie found himself adopting a similar approach in his writing as he attempted to understand the country and his own place in it. Divided into three parts, this book explores how he submerged himself in the culture through its art history, eccentricities and ordinariness and built a home from the reclaimed sand. The tides of time draw ever closer, threatening to sweep away the present. Instead of waiting for it to wash in, Charlie ventures off the beaten track and observes the world around him ever more keenly, with a boundless enthusiasm for the all-too-often overlooked.
In his brilliant and very-hard-to-describe debut novel, Jermyn brings the common and absurd to crisp, shimmering life through his essays and short non-fiction pieces, reminding us to take note of the mad and brilliant world around us before the tide comes in again.” - Bog Bodies Press
Outstanding in his field?
Bog Bodies Press
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’
Una’s Book Project
I collaborated with the artist Una Jongegenlis 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.
To be released November 14th 2025.
The Land - All About Alliums
I wrote some prose titled ‘The onion, the boy, the basket, the mayhem’ based on a sighting of Jan Steen’s ‘A School for Boys and Girls (1670)’
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Simulacrum Magazine Hunting/Jagen #33.3
Some out there may be aware of my fascination with the Egyptian Goose. Since my first sighting of them at Sloterplas four years ago, I believe they have been following me, or maybe they think I am following them. I don’t know. In some recent work and research, I went deeper into the goose world, paddling out into the unknown, honking into eternity. You can read all about it in @simulacrum.magazine ‘Hunting’ issue now.
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Onomatopee ‘The Vendor’
I was a happy chappy to have my piece ‘Balkbrug and dogwood’ printed in The Vendor at @onomatopeenet. Thanks to @studiofestein and all the team that put it together — it is a thing of verdant beauty.
