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Forest
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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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JLM Morton 01/12/2020 JLM Morton 01/12/2020

Instructions From a Mute Swan

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JLM Morton 14/11/2020 JLM Morton 14/11/2020

Starvation Song

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JLM Morton 27/10/2020 JLM Morton 27/10/2020

Halloween Special! Daubenton's Bats

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JLM Morton 30/09/2020 JLM Morton 30/09/2020

The Turning

A poem for October at the lake.

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JLM Morton 03/08/2020 JLM Morton 03/08/2020

Provenance

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JLM Morton 30/06/2020 JLM Morton 30/06/2020

Wingspan

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JLM Morton 31/05/2020 JLM Morton 31/05/2020

Night Swimming

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JLM Morton 02/05/2020 JLM Morton 02/05/2020

Night Watch, May 2020

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JLM Morton 01/04/2020 JLM Morton 01/04/2020

Courage, April 2020

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JLM Morton 11/03/2020 JLM Morton 11/03/2020

#lakegram

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JLM Morton 08/03/2020 JLM Morton 08/03/2020

Now I've found my voice, I've got so much to say

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JLM Morton 01/03/2020 JLM Morton 01/03/2020

Figure of Speech, March 2020

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JLM Morton 01/02/2020 JLM Morton 01/02/2020

Tenching, February 2020

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JLM Morton 01/01/2020 JLM Morton 01/01/2020

On Being Waterland Poet in Residence 2020

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"Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all." ~ Herman Hesse 'Trees are Sanctuaries' ~ these words are still ringing through my mind after last Saturday's performance Towards Silence by Simon McBurney and
Time to hunker down on final edits, let's go @profile.books! 
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#Tenderfoot
#nonfiction
#trespass
#bluespace
#Churn
Shouts to the Soho Poly people, especially super curator Hannah, tech goddess Valeria and all the students behind the scenes making everything run smoothly. Twas a pleasure to read alongside such brilliant and varied poets - a lovely evening with a r
I am happy we still live in a world where this dress is plausible ...

...and this door

and this man in a red coat calling out from a c17th painting 

and this thought with my tea at Poetry Pharmacy
Obsessing at the moment about Alice Oswald's writing in Rhapsody on the ways poetry / song were made up of place - bird, twig, river, dirt, dog, people - and once transferred to the page became trapped in the alphabet, far from home.
morning
"it been really interesting is good to talk face to face isn't it" Julia Bird, Mike Sims, Juliette Morton in conversation on small press publishing, an online exclusive over on Poetry London 🤌🏽
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@poetry_london
Still integrating the experience of Dobunni Poetry Festival, but just taking a moment to gather in Borrowed Ground Radio from installation in the grounds around @chapelsofrest 📻  thanks for the lush feedback 💓

The next transmission will be popping
Are we mad to be putting this on, a poetry festival that is surely one of the last communal places not built around consumption? YES WE ARE - and proud. Festivals gather people, letting them think and be in ways that aren’t purely transactional
Oh how I love Rialto Magazine! New poem in the latest issue #104 🫀🗡
Bringing down the haus at @bookhausbristol w these brilliant Bristolians (and their (our) footwear)! Amazing readings from these legends, a real treat to hear their work 🤍✨️💫📯
Another eve at the expansive, convivial space  @museuminthepark, reading alongside Matthew Barton, Pip Heywood & Lania Knight. Beautiful venue, beautiful crowd with thanks to @yewtreepressofstroud for hosting 🤍
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 💌
#BorrowedGround #poetrycommunity #poem
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