Publications — JLM Morton

Publications & Prizes

Two Poems Bad Lilies Issue 19

'What Middle Age Taught Me At The Equinox'

National Poetry Competition

Furious Magic

Cornelis Drebbel discovers the perfect red c.1606

Let's Not Kid Ourselves

Winner Poetry Competition

Nan Shepherd Prize Longlist

'Love Song for Ewe' (Candlestick Press)

The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2022, judged by Niall Campbell

'Churn' poem sequence

'On Resistance' essay

‘Lifecycle of the Cochineal Beetle, c.1788’

'On Doubt / a pair of blue eyes'

'Source Material,' lyric essay, winner of the Laurie Lee Prize 2022

'Pig Man Ghazal’

Magma 78: Collaborations

'INDIGO'

'Shift'

Two poems

'An Inheritance of Water'

Three poems

'Saturnalia'

Hear me read three poems for Iamb Wave 14, Summer 2023

A Corinium Wild Escape, poem for children

Micropamphlet Yew Tree Press

'Spirit of Place'

'Stroudwater Navigation'

'Reverse Archaeology at the Glacier'

'These Specified Offences'

'Redcoat Haibun'

Lake 32

Winning poem: 'The Kiss'

'Seat of Power'

'Hibernal Soundscape'

POETHEAD - 'Clutch' and other poems

'Lockdown Buzzcut'

Five poems

Five poems

'Tell Us More About Yourself (100 words max)'

'The Toots' - poetry competition win

'HOMO 3681'

'Fibonacci pantoum for lovers'

'Patrilineal'

Two poems

'Incantation for Ellen Hayward'

'Stay With Me' - novel extract, shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize 2013

'Familiar' - Poetry Competition 2019, 2nd place

Collaborations

with writer Emma Kernahan & illustrator Bill Jones

with 100+ artists, writers, makers, musicians and more

'Chapel' for DIRT ecopoetry imprint

with artist Susie Hetherington

'Drowning Backwards' with the Phonograph Collective

'Did I hear that?' Goldsmiths x RPS

'Rodborough Hornbeam' poem w. linocut by Susie Hetherington

'Winter Swimming' by Stuart Ballard

Installations

'I hold the fragile sphere' poem on cotton

'Drowning Backwards'

‘Cuda ex Nihilo’ poem in red paint marker

'Blue Boys' painted in indigo on gallery wall

‘The Startling’ audio installation at Sanctuary Lab 2021

'What's Left When the River is Gone' audio installation

Residencies

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

Interviews

Wombwell Rainbow Book Interviews: “Lake 32” by JLM Morton

~ from Poetry News, the Poetry Society’s quarterly bulletin. On winning the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize.

People’s Poetry Podcast, S4: Ep3 with Jimmy Bowman