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Borrowed Ground

Gigs & Workshops

Borrowed Ground

Gigs & Workshops

"Cloths of such strength they'll outlast the life of a man" / On being Stroudwater Textile Trust Poet in Residence

JLM Morton 18/04/2021 JLM Morton 18/04/2021

"Cloths of such strength they'll outlast the life of a man" / On being Stroudwater Textile Trust Poet in Residence

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©2018 by JLM Morton.

For the past 3 or 4 months I've been puzzling over how, without the means to tour my book, I can take my work into unexpected places and meet people with words where they are. Nights spent soldering speaker wires through the heatwave and scratching m

Poetry at Museum in the Park, 7th October. Free entry and everyone welcome 🖤

More books have arrived! Good equinox augury. Give me a shout if you'd like a signed copy 💌
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how can it be happening again again again, it is always happening again, isn't it always happening, will it keep happening again ... seeing @motaz_azaiza and others' feeds remembering what the mainstream won't. I used to offer practical support when

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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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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Beach as ultimate commons? South Hams serving 💛🐖💙