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Night Swimming

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Image copyright: Sam Cannon

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Night Swimming - signifying an ultimate kind of freedom. A poem for June at the lake 🐟 #waterland #lake32 #poetinresidence #poem #poetry #nightswimming #oss #outdoorswimmingsociety

JLM Morton31 May 2020
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Gridding this pinch me moment, feeling so lucky to collaborate with these legends 💖 #LivingMatter opening 💚 @marasimpsonmusic @tobin_jones_
Sunrise at Swifts Hill 🌦 another morning, another madcap scheme to find a river - thanking Slad Brook for her waters, honouring Slad Valley for all that it gives, our home place for Living Matter #installation #celebrant #imaginal #shamanic #hiddenn
🌿LIVING MATTER opens this Friday at 7pm! Living Matter is a 40-minute spatial sound installation by multi-instrumentalist and composer Mara Simpson and sound engineer, Tobin Jones, featuring the work of poet JLM Morton and visual artist Narna Hue.
Mast year 🌰🫐🐽
Magical joy of joys to gather tonight to test out the first full listen of the @hiddennotes___ Living Matter sound installation tonight @rattleandbrash 🌱 am truly so full of awe and love for the creativity and professionalism of @marasimpsonmusic @
Looking forward to judging this year's GPS open poetry competition - deadline for submissions 30th September. See www.gloucestershirepoetrysociety.co.uk for all the details #poetry #poetrycompetition #poetlife
August reading status update 🤓 . . #amreading #bookstagram
Holiday is a state of mind / is the time it takes to get back to yourself. Road trip!  🇪🇸  🇵🇹  🇪🇸
out of office
Stopped by Mara and Tobin, aka total legends beavering away at Rattle and Brash on the sound for the Hidden Notes installation. Plus these beautiful drafts of more muslin hangings from Nirvana (sound onnnn) after we block printed the poems last week.
Explorer Poet Podcast's latest episode, in which I harp on about the compulsion of creativity and the "value" of art. Enjoy it not least for the moment when my mind goes totally blank, and I forget every American poet I've ever read 🦧🙈 Th
'Every single clock at Snowshill Manor tells a different time, every corner of every room giving the illusion of existing on a different timeline. Or, multiple timelines existing all at once, simultaneously. I suppose that if you could peer into the
Anyone who knows me knows that I swim here all the time. It’s a place that’s very dear to me as well as lots friends I swim with – I think we all feel like we belong to this place and are nourished and nurtured by it and feel a deep
Really *really* pleased to say that I've signed with Matt Turner at Rogers, Coleridge & White @rcwliteraryagency Excited about the road ahead may be a slight understatement 🤯😆🤓
Beautiful Ruskin Mill - first time here for a while; I've been reading and thinking a lot about spiritual ecologies lately and reciprocity and this place seems to embody compassion, empathy and care for all life. This and all the marching, pot bangin
I've never been more ashamed to be British. I didn't vote for this @uklabour @keirstarmer @david.lammy Stop arming Israel NOW, exert intense diplomatic pressure through bi- and multilateral channels and get the borders open NOW. Stop the genoc.ide NO
Fun morning with Steve Moore who's photographing poets around Gloucestershire ... and I got to go first 😱 I don't know about anyone else but I'm not wild about having my photo taken by others - yet Steve's such a reassuring presence, he's made somet