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"Cloths of such strength they'll outlast the life of a man" / On being Stroudwater Textile Trust Poet in Residence
"Cloths of such strength they'll outlast the life of a man" / On being Stroudwater Textile Trust Poet in Residence
JLM Morton18 April 2021poetry, poetryresidency, textiles, stroud, stroudwater
Instructions From a Mute Swan
Instructions From a Mute Swan
JLM Morton1 December 2020
Starvation Song
Starvation Song
JLM Morton14 November 2020
Halloween Special! Daubenton's Bats
Halloween Special! Daubenton's Bats
JLM Morton27 October 2020
The Turning
The Turning

A poem for October at the lake.

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JLM Morton30 September 2020
Provenance
Provenance
JLM Morton3 August 2020
Wingspan
Wingspan
JLM Morton30 June 2020poetry, magpie, amwriting, poetrycommunity, poetryresidency, poetinresidenceComment
Night Swimming
Night Swimming
JLM Morton31 May 2020
Night Watch, May 2020
Night Watch, May 2020
JLM Morton2 May 2020 Comments
Courage, April 2020
Courage, April 2020
JLM Morton1 April 2020Comment
#lakegram
#lakegram
JLM Morton11 March 2020
Now I've found my voice, I've got so much to say
Now I've found my voice, I've got so much to say
JLM Morton8 March 2020
Figure of Speech, March 2020
Figure of Speech, March 2020
JLM Morton1 March 2020
Tenching, February 2020
Tenching, February 2020
JLM Morton1 February 2020
On Being Waterland Poet in Residence 2020
On Being Waterland Poet in Residence 2020
JLM Morton1 January 2020
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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. ✨️ 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 🌀✨️🧘‍♀️⚕️🌞🌕💦
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
STANDING IN THIS PLACE ~ I thought I wouldn’t like this statue at all, a statue I expected to be a whitewashing of black women’s experience of enslavement but in reality, I found it very powerful. I think it probably says more about us no