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Borrowed Ground

Gigs & Workshops

Borrowed Ground

Gigs & Workshops

Borrowed Ground

Gigs & Workshops

©2018 by JLM Morton.

Poems 'cross the battlefields, tending the wounds, listening to the wild monologues of the triumphant or the fearful...' John Berger on poetry, with thanks to Cassie & Simon for leading me back to this work on the 100th anniversary of Berger's bi

Taking down _Borrowed Ground Radio_ in Sladebank Woods this afternoon after @stroudbookfestival

Here's some lovely, thoughtful feedback from Martin and Kesty, who own the community woodland @sladebankwoods and hosted the installation. I promise, I

Sunday... and up through the vineyard and on, past the rough and the pheasant feeders and out to the scarp. Come the apocalypse there will be wine, at least

I have a complicated relationship with Remembrance Sunday, as do so many of us. As the child of a post-war baby, growing up in a period of what now seems like rare stability, I learned to scorn war. Patriotism represented a kind of tub-thumping natio

The future of poetry is in super safe hands. 💫 Really enjoyed hosting the exceptionally gifted Bethany Handley, Oluwaseun Olayiwola & Jack Cooper tonight, all Eric Gregory Award winners reading and talking all things craft this evening @stroudbo

BORROWED GROUND RADIO broadcasts this weekend at Sladebank Woods as part of Stroud Book Festival. Head up to the woods today - weather is looking good!

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JLM Morton‘s Borrowed Ground Radio broadcasts poems into wild spaces, tuning vis

Early winter readings... links for all the events in stories & available here:

https://www.jlmmorton.com/events

Hope to see some of you somewhere along the way! x

Installation day!! Borrowed Ground Radio at Sladebank Woods 🌳 🍁

Borrowed Ground Radio broadcasts poems into wild spaces, tuning visitors in as they pass by and trigger an infrared sensor.

Transmitters will be broadcasting along access routes fro

Cool afternoon meeting graphic novelist and comic book creator Fumio Obata (such an interesting life!) and talking to students @uniofglos about life as a creative freelancer - dreams and nightmares. I've been freelancing for 18 years and sometimes I'

the gospel according ...

To the edge of sanity ...and back again (hopefully?). Last.big edit on my next book DONE.
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I am very tired now. But very happy.

At Samhain, as all Instagrammers know, the veil thins and old customs return: guising and ghost stories, apple parings thrown over the shoulder to divine a lover’s initial or bobbed to secure next year’s luck. But I say let's go analogue

New poems over on @interpretershousesonline // Deep Country + The Future Arrives Earlier Than Expected // with warm thanks to editor @jobratten 🤍
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Find out more on the backstory to these poems on IH Issue 86 ✨️
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Mugshot for the algo!

"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

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