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JLM Morton

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Niche reading selections for February / head in the archives / all energy into writing, writing ✍️
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Saturday morning, quiet cuppa tea while the house is still sleeping and I'm doing final edits on the collection. So much of the work of a book is in the edit, the fine tuning, the ordering, re-titling, getting the poems to tell their story back to th

WE SWIM 🐟 Join me and the brilliant Jess McQuail for three films about swimming and some pool themed poetry on Sunday 8th March @stroudfilmfest! Jess has been instrumental in caring for our amazing lido and making sure it stays open for everyone to

BUZZZZZ WORDS. Join me a week on Sunday for a workshop and open mic at the next Buzzwords, Cheltenham's regular live poetry night 🎙

Workshop 7pm, followed by a reading from yours truly and open mic. Exmouth Arms, GL53 7LX.
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Back on it... this week's workshop planning 🪄

Thanks to a generous soul, I put myself in book jail/paradise for 48 hours at a local hotel to get the damn words done. I'm not sure I'd recommend having to get two books together (poetry collection and long form prose book) at the same time but such

Craft vs. Technique 🚘🏁 I was re-reading Heaney's 'Feeling into Words' essay recently for a group I'm running and been thinking much about the distinction he makes between craft - the ability to make poems; and technique - the ability to go beyond c

Over at Uni of Glos @uniofglos today to talk to undergrad Eng Lit and Creative Writing students about place, ecology and identity 💚🐸🦠🌱🌳🪲

bright orb / blue scrap of what? ... 41 consecutive days of rain 🌧

What an unexpectedly terrific opportunity to share new work at last night's Stroud Arts Lab. Was anticipating half a dozen folk huddled round a lukewarm cuppa tea but I could not have been *more wrong*. Double surprise to see the ever superb Tom Sast

Hi, here's my massive mug in a entirely unveiled and shameless attempt to ask if anyone can recommend (or indeed runs) good UK poetry nights that I can read at? My new collection will be out late August and I'm starting to get my planning hat on for

It's *that* time again 🫠 more love poems than I thought, less war, loads of unhinged and a bunch I do *not* like 👍🏼 #PoetryCollection #edit

A day in the archives @coriniummuseum @cirencester_parish_church Massive thanks to historian Caroline Morris for expert help finding various needles in haystacks. You don't get that with AI now do ya?!!

Merrrie Imbolc dear friends. Throw open the windows, light a candle, wash in cold water! Poem by Seamus Heaney from The Spirit Level. The light, always the light ✨️ see full poem below! 🌱

January re/readings 🤓📚
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worship the source babes 🌀

Morning brush w the Longstone 🪨
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Runs around the field on the stroke of midnight it does 👀
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#imbolc incoming 🪨

Thanks to @joff_elphick for reminding me, it's 5 years since we made a piece together about the Severn (& w @oonaghd on synth and vocals 💙). Swipe left to hear a bit - the text will be in my next collection which I'm just doing the edits on. Out