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JLM Morton19 October 2023

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Notes on enchantment

JLM Morton1 April 2023

JLM Morton

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Thank you to all the amazing folk who came along last night 🌙 ❤️ 🙏 sorry there weren't enough chairs! Loves you innit x

Grid love for the cow face ❤️

B O R R O W E D G R O U N D ✨️ My new poetry collection Borrowed Ground is out now! Available from all the very best bookshops and direct via @brokensleepbooks (see bio for links) 📚
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"Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton is a lyric ecology of d

If you're looking for inspiration this autumn, there are lots of different ways you can come and work with me! Including ....

Reweirding Albion (self-study course)
Reading Groups: Forward Prize for Best Single Poem & TS Eliot Shortlist
Level Up

Summerrrrrr reads 📚
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#amreadi̇ng
#bookstagram
#yesihaveactuallyreadthem
#booksbooksbooks

This week, a good friend of mine gifted me a poem - Lúnasa, written by the brilliant poet and editor Pip Rush when he was in Cork recently, where some of my ancestors came from. It has touched me deeply. As my new collection edges ever closer

Sunday in the golden valley 🧹🧹🧹

"Reading is such a dynamic experience, changing with each reader and each new reading. Poems become inflected with new experiences, understanding, emotions every time they are met. Didn’t Walt Whitman say that ‘it is you that stand b

Biggest of shouts to a man like Andrew Hykel Mears - launching his brilliant new pamphlet Rivering tonight at @bookcellarbristol 🖤 Love letter to language, fatherhood and the sacred ecologies of water 💧 Go buy it from @scarlettigerpress and support

I am very grateful to @_thebookseller for selecting Borrowed Ground as the poetry autumn/winter season highlight in their Buyer's Guide 🙏 "rising-star" 🥹
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#poetrybooks #poetrycollection #BorrowedGround @brokensleepbooks

Beach as ultimate commons? South Hams serving 💛🐖💙

a Lammas wedding today, thanking my luckies I get to do this, that in spite of it all, there are people who are still choosing love, giant hearted supersonic star crossed star shaped go on then give it another go second time round haven't given up on

the land this evening, it hurts - here looking across the commons to the Severn, Sugarloaf and the Black Mountains 🤌🏽

My second poetry collection, BORROWED GROUND is out in exactly six weeks today! Here's what the Poetry Book Society has to say about it: "Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton is a lyric ecology of dread, devotion, and damaged inheritance, written from