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Saturnalia: a world turned upside down

Saturnalia - a poem in the latest Finished Creatures poetry mag edited by Jan Heritage.

JLM Morton30 March 2023

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The arts survive not because the system is fair, but because people choose to keep the work alive. Literature does not happen in isolation. It happens in rooms, in circles, in landscapes, in conversations and in communities. It happens because people

Over on the Poetry School blog, I have written about some of the ways we might write about England in these strange times... "Leaning into the weird (and into the Old English ‘wyrd’) is a way of exploring the world beyond normative n

but I'm not a 'wild' swimmer, more of a serene glider ... almost like I give no f*cks? so peaceful today, apart from the crazy sqwuaking herons 🪶
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#trespass #amswimming

This time last year I was writing about magnolias for an essay on ecopoetics in Poetry Birmingham Lit Journal, their vulnerability and resilience. Read the essay here: https://poetrybirmingham.com/jlm-morton-wonder-as-liberation-practice

"As I

Committing this to the grid, meeting the absolute legend that is Alison Brackenbury tonight when she came to my reading in Cheltenham. Such a razor sharp wit, 10 poetry collections so far, multiple awards, broadcaster extraordinaire. Role model in e

This international Women's Day I am celebrating by being a woman and going out to read a lot of poems, something I'm lucky to now call my actual job - but I wouldn't be doing this without the support of my amazing friends who by casually assuming I c

Tomorrow, I'll be reading poems alongside three films for 'We Swim' @stroudfilmfest @museuminthepark the extraordinary Maze from the Scottish Ballet, BAFTA winning Jellyfish & Lobster and The Pool, a community film about our local lido Poems by

Happy World Book Day to my book babies! Both pamphlets have completely sold out now but Red Handed is still available from @brokensleepbooks ❤️🤓

JLM Morton has created a visceral and profound testament to rural life and the cloth and dye industries

Niche reading selections for February / head in the archives / all energy into writing, writing ✍️
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#amreading

WE SWIM 🐟 Join me and the brilliant Jess McQuail for three films about swimming and some pool themed poetry on Sunday 8th March @stroudfilmfest! Jess has been instrumental in caring for our amazing lido and making sure it stays open for everyone to

BUZZZZZ WORDS. Join me a week on Sunday for a workshop and open mic at the next Buzzwords, Cheltenham's regular live poetry night 🎙

Workshop 7pm, followed by a reading from yours truly and open mic. Exmouth Arms, GL53 7LX.
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Back on it... this week's workshop planning 🪄

Thanks to a generous soul, I put myself in book jail/paradise for 48 hours at a local hotel to get the damn words done. I'm not sure I'd recommend having to get two books together (poetry collection and long form prose book) at the same time but such

Craft vs. Technique 🚘🏁 I was re-reading Heaney's 'Feeling into Words' essay recently for a group I'm running and been thinking much about the distinction he makes between craft - the ability to make poems; and technique - the ability to go beyond c

Over at Uni of Glos @uniofglos today to talk to undergrad Eng Lit and Creative Writing students about place, ecology and identity 💚🐸🦠🌱🌳🪲

bright orb / blue scrap of what? ... 41 consecutive days of rain 🌧

What an unexpectedly terrific opportunity to share new work at last night's Stroud Arts Lab. Was anticipating half a dozen folk huddled round a lukewarm cuppa tea but I could not have been *more wrong*. Double surprise to see the ever superb Tom Sast

Hi, here's my massive mug in a entirely unveiled and shameless attempt to ask if anyone can recommend (or indeed runs) good UK poetry nights that I can read at? My new collection will be out late August and I'm starting to get my planning hat on for