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JLM Morton19 October 2023

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Notes on enchantment

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JLM Morton

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RE-WEIRDING ALBION 🌚 Explore landscapes of strangeness as we "Re-Weird" Albion and dig down to uncover the dark folklore, uncanny hauntings, and radical myths entangled in our roots.

‘The fate of our times is characterized by ration

Grateful to live in such a brilliant town that has such a superb book festival @stroudbookfestival which kicked off tonight with a timely and thought provoking event on books and the ways the knowledge they contain has been preserved and threatened t

Reading as a Writer // thinking about five books that were formative for me as a writer and a plain old human who reads ahead of 'Firewords' a celebration of books and reading at @StroudBookFestival tomorrow night ... full post over on 👉🏼 https://j

mad fer picklin ✌🏼

October reads 📚
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A nostalgic edge to these, returning to book loves of old and Nigeria - i lived there a while, now reconnecting through visual art, how much to learn for those of us interested in decolonising and reclaiming our culture 🧡
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Looking forward to this! Join The Poetry Society for this immersive workshop with JLM Morton exploring how poetry can chart the landscapes of memory, emotion, and environment. Blending creative cartography with lyrical writing, participants will crea

I know people give prize culture a hard time for what it excludes, what it inflates, but it plays such a crucial role in increasing visibility not just of individual poets but poetry itself as an art form and if the Forward Prizes last night are anyt

I can't remember ever staying so close to home (12 minutes, tbp!) but due to a fortuitous skill swap in which think i might've got the better deal and thanks to the lovely Kate Dent, we've just had a super nourishing couple of days @lypiatthill ... h

🧹 school run sunrise 🧹

Realising this is the first week in ages when I haven't done a reading / show / installation ✨️ it's nice not to be always on ✨️ and reading, reading, reading - books are empathy machines, there are more great humans than not (you can read about that

Remembrance poets from our reading last night and the Great East Window, the largest in the world when it was built in the 1350s ⛪️ 'a house of memory' ⛪️

and how different

Some favourites from the last few days on our tiny West Country tour of Dorset and Cornwall where the audiences have been so welcoming and warm - thank you, you've restored my faith in folk🙏

Forgive me archiving these pics in my insta memory bank

Great turnout for the Indie Press Network Poetry Salon. Thanks to all the brilliant poets who came and read and to the warm and generous audience 😍
Left to right:
Des Mannay
Pip Rush
Iris Anne Lewis
Mary Mulholland
Cherry Potts
Catherine Balaq
Barry

September reading status update 🤓✌🏼
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Anyone read anything good this month?

#bookstagram #amreading

Pechakucha Gloucester - tomorrow night - looking forward to having a stab at this on Wednesday, talking about how Dialect @dialectwriters started
// how it's going.

The slides are ready, I am not *exactly* sure what I'm going to say yet and no mor

An afternoon celebrating the Severn, reanimating our relationship - shifting from dominance to partnership, honouring sustainable stewardship and calling for recognition of the right of the Severn to protection. I loved our rag taggle band of folk we