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JLM Morton19 October 2023

Notes on enchantment

crows, bears, big trees and griping

JLM Morton1 April 2023

Saturnalia: a world turned upside down

A poem in the latest Finished Creatures poetry mag edited by Jan Heritage.

JLM Morton30 March 2023

Notes Towards Care 1

To care is to be present to the griefs and burdens of our season.

To lament what has been lost.

It is a mourning. A recognition of absence.

JLM Morton7 March 2023

Solstice Sulis

Sulis and the consolations of ritual on the darkest day of the year

JLM Morton20 December 2022Comment

Laurie Lee: source material

On influence and inspiration, source material and winning the Laurie Lee Prize 2022.

JLM Morton23 November 2022

Guardianship and the Genii Cuculatti

Exploring triplism and Iron Age hooded godlets as guardians of the Cotswolds

JLM Morton14 November 2022

Stroud Scarlet: War and Empire. The Five Valleys and The World.

Exhibition, spoken word event and history walk exploring the local / global history of Stroudwater scarlet.

JLM Morton8 November 2022Comment

Rosmerta the great provider

Rosmerta, the great provider, is a little known Celtic goddess and yet she is attested in iconography and statues from across the Gaulish world on both sides of the Rhine and in Britain, particularly in the south west and around what is now Gloucestershire.

JLM Morton27 July 2022

Severn Worlding

An introduction to my long poem soundscape ‘Drowning Backwards’ with The Phonograph Collective, currently on show at the Severn Worlding exhibition, SVA in Stroud, UK. Curated by Patricia Brien.

JLM Morton5 July 2022

Immersions: Into the River Cam

Dive into a multitude of artworks exploring stories told from the water’s eye with a multimedia exhibition and an evening of processional performance and poetry at Robinson College Cambridge.

JLM Morton19 June 2022

Furious Magic

Rethinking rural space as a frontline, a threshold, not a margin. A place where country’s revolutionary underside can be revealed in all its unhinged, disobliging, furious magic.

JLM Morton7 June 2022Comment

The Outposted Project: connecting artists in isolation

The Outposted Project was a multidisciplinary arts project and platform for creativity and connection in a time of crisis.

JLM Morton20 April 2022

Plant Communitas

Communitas [kɔmˈmuːnɪt̪äːs̠] is a Latin noun which refers to an unstructured community in which persons are equal … Plant Communitas considers plants and their active engagement in the human everyday, the imagination, medicinal and mystical traditions and the eco-political.

JLM Morton14 April 2022