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"Cloths of such strength they'll outlast the life of a man" / On being Stroudwater Textile Trust Poet in Residence
"Cloths of such strength they'll outlast the life of a man" / On being Stroudwater Textile Trust Poet in Residence
JLM Morton18 April 2021poetry, poetryresidency, textiles, stroud, stroudwater
Instructions From a Mute Swan
Instructions From a Mute Swan
JLM Morton1 December 2020
Starvation Song
Starvation Song
JLM Morton14 November 2020
Halloween Special! Daubenton's Bats
Halloween Special! Daubenton's Bats
JLM Morton27 October 2020
The Turning
The Turning

A poem for October at the lake.

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JLM Morton30 September 2020
Provenance
Provenance
JLM Morton3 August 2020
Wingspan
Wingspan
JLM Morton30 June 2020poetry, magpie, amwriting, poetrycommunity, poetryresidency, poetinresidenceComment
Night Swimming
Night Swimming
JLM Morton31 May 2020
Night Watch, May 2020
Night Watch, May 2020
JLM Morton2 May 2020 Comments
Courage, April 2020
Courage, April 2020
JLM Morton1 April 2020Comment
#lakegram
#lakegram
JLM Morton11 March 2020
Now I've found my voice, I've got so much to say
Now I've found my voice, I've got so much to say
JLM Morton8 March 2020
Figure of Speech, March 2020
Figure of Speech, March 2020
JLM Morton1 March 2020
Tenching, February 2020
Tenching, February 2020
JLM Morton1 February 2020
On Being Waterland Poet in Residence 2020
On Being Waterland Poet in Residence 2020
JLM Morton1 January 2020
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Next Sunday my disembodied voice will be in the Jardin Botánico in Trujilo, Peru (!) joining the voices of Peruvian women and a global audio community transcending language and borders. This fascinating installation created by brilliant Scot
Hello, are you on a writing retreat with dear lovely @poetalicewillitts? yes I am, she calls it an 'alongsiding' and there are many words and much chat ☎️ better than going alone - recommend 👍🏼
Well that was wild! I can't stop thinking about the smooth dips in the stone floors of the Baths where people have worn them away over the 2000 years since they were built; and walking through the temple to Sulis Minerva late at night after everyone
Say hello to my friends the belted galloways of Swifts Hill, where I'm a volunteer stock checker for @gloswildlife 🐮 #cowsofig they may weigh (half) a tonne but they're sooo cute 🐮
✨ Last chance to enter the mythic mayhem … ✨ Tomorrow night, Lost Mythos reaches its final West Country portal and we've saved the best for last - the Roman Baths at Bath. Joins us at one of the great spas of the ancient world for this uniq
Monday walk in search of an ancient yew 🌳 wild boar, buzzard, a glass jar full of wishes 🪶
Samhain dark moon descent dreaming this afternoon at Sladebank and my first experience of mugwort tea 🍵 welcoming in the winter 🌚 much gratitude @katedineenshamanicpractitioner for being our seer and our guide 🙏
WONDER AS LIBERATION PRACTICE 💫 a hybrid essay commissioned by @poetrybrum w a new poem 'Late Warning', thinking about the embodiment of the imagination, as well as its capacity to express a kind of freedom that can't be contained. Many thanks to ed
REPEATING PATTERNS ⚡️ a new poem in @poetry_london something to brighten the day - hard to imagine being in that steamy spot when it's so wet and dark here! Poems, eh? Nothing for months then three come along at once. With massive heartwarm thanks to
Shouts to all the brilliant festival organisers, museum staff and theatre runners who've said a big fat YES to Lost Mythos this year. We've performed to big crowds and little crowds and everything in between and it's been a blast bringing our frankly
AFTER THE BURIAL × a new poem in Issue 2 of @aftershockpoetry in memory of my cousin, who took his own life earlier this year. With thanks to Max Wallis - loving the energy and urgency of Aftershock. So many poetry heroes in this issue, a prop
VIXEN 🦊 I've a new poem in Issue 49 of Southword, the beautiful journal of international writing put together by @munsterliteraturecentre. This came out of my residency at @sladebankwoods and is my first Irish publication 🇮🇪 a stroke of serendipit
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 ✌🏼