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Saturnalia: a world turned upside down

Saturnalia

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

JLM Morton30 March 2023

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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

New Writers Poetry Competition closes this Wednesday, 15th July at midnight!

£1000 prize for the winner.

For more info and to enter, go to 👉 newwriters.org.uk

📸 credit @moorecreativephotography

a li'l spot on the grid for sunset sessions 🙏massive gratitude to @dubbu4 & crew for all you do... the man even litterpicks the next morning. That's what we call stewardship for the land, right there 💚 @right.2roam

morning! birthday floor portrait, as is customary 🦀 another spin round the sun 🌞 🌀

green cathedral 💚

Round of applause for Biscuit, 7 years old today! 🐕 we made him a hideous dog food cake and he loved it 😋 🎂

Is a poem sitting in your drafts, waiting to be found?

Whether you are just starting to play with words or are polishing a full manuscript, as I come to the end of the teaching term my books are now officially open for 1-to-1 poetry mentoring.

I of

LANDSCAPE AS ARCHIVE is my next retreat offering. Friday, 2 October 2026 - 3 nights with the gorgeous @oakhill_ponds near Frome in Somerset.
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A three-night poetry writing retreat exploring landscape as archive, using observation, memory and place a

On retreat at @themillfrance ... six women, five days, *a lot* of writing, yoga, ceramics and water in the limestone landscape of Aveyron 🌀✨️🧘&zwj;♀️⚕️🌞🌕💦

BORROWED GROUND is now available for preorder! Borrowed Ground is JLM Morton's second full collection, a reckoning with land, climate grief, and the entanglement of human and more-than-human life. Rooted in the woodland and river country of the west

"The word menopause is not ugly. It’s shamanic." ~ from 'Shape Shift' by Allyson Hallett 🐛 sitting in circle with other women this afternoon exploring midlife metamorphosis through poetry and the making of ritual objects at the beaut

Coming up next week at the The Red Hearth in Stroud! Tickets on a sliding scale £7-20.

‘When a caterpillar is ready for the next stage of its life, it finds a quiet and safe place and spins itself into a cocoon or chrysalis. Then, the c

Beware what poems may conjure 🦊🥚
Fox: 15.06.26
Poem: Southword issue 49

A brilliant couple of days at Therapeutic Landscapes, "a gathering place for artists, researchers and practitioners exploring folk culture, creative practice and the healing power of place" ~ things I'm holding include critical hope, mess,

L O N G L I G H T ✨️ In the run up to the summer solstice, I'm hosting an online workshop for writers to explore themes of heat, intensity, imbalance, radiance, volatility at sun’s pinnacle.

What does it mean to stand at the peak of something