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Poet / Writer She / Her / Dr #PoetryReview #Rialto #PBLJ #Magma etc| Winner Geoffrey Dearmer & Laurie Lee Prizes | Highly Commended @forwardprizes | RED HANDED @brokensleepbooks | Rep'd www.rcwlitagency.com | Chaotic good πŸ’« |www.jlmmorton.com

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Featuring the amazing tutors: πŸͺ»πŸŒœ

Sarah Wardle, Jess Traynor (@jesstraynor.bsky.social), Carrie Etter (@carrieetter.bsky.social), JLM Morton (@jlmmorton.bsky.social), Samatar Elmi, Jenny Wong (@jenwithwords.bsky.social)

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Spring 2026 – Quick Course Guide β€’ Poetry School Check out our Quick Course Guide for the Spring 2026 term which will help you pick a course to take at the Poetry School.

Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Our handy Quick Course Guide is linked in bio, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…

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Firework The horizon was a sea of maids, rushing to piece me back into a girl. Out of the girl came yellow flowers, came stem & sepal.

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05.11.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Online Writing Workshop: Poetic Mapping with JLM Morton – The Poetry Society

Poetic Mapping workshop - booking open now πŸ‘‡ Blending creative cartography with lyrical writing, participants will create personal or collective β€˜maps’ – of neighbourhoods, childhood places, imagined futures, or inner worlds – using poetry as compass.

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An evening of Remembrance Poetry Join us for an evening of remembrance poetry

Tonight at Gloucester Cathedral, I'm looking forward to reading some of Ivor Gurney's incredibly moving war poems + some new work of my own, noticing how contemporary war poems shift and echo work written more than a century ago, how alike we still are.

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15.10.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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JLM Morton Juliette was the very first poet I photographed as part of my series of portraits of Gloucestershire poets.Juliette explains on her website https://www.jlmmorton.com; "I’m a writer, poet, editor, celebrant and teacher based near Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. My work explores contemporary rural experience and belonging, ancestry, place and practices of care, repair and solidarity across human and more-than-human worlds."Juliette chose to be photographed around the Stroudwater canal. The ind

Read about my photography of the poet @jlmmorton.bsky.social stephenmoore2013.wixsite.com/smoorephotog... #photography #poet

05.10.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Five Questions for... JLM Morton β€” Elsewhere: A Journal of Place We continue our series of occasional short interviews with contributors and friends of Elsewhere with five questions for JLM Morton, who we featured in our Trespass issue.  What does home mean ...

I had fun writing this for Elsewhere Journal, sharing my love of Sierra Leone and my longing for Rajasthan πŸ’˜

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30.09.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrutopoems β€” Dialect Announcing a new collaboration

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18.09.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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on attunement Living Matter: a sentient collaboration

on attunement

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11.09.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have a look at the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social list. There are many. Also check Natasha Carthew, Fran Lock etc

09.09.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Surveys for Writers and Readers in Gloucester (GUST Collaboration) β€” Dialect A survey of what’s currently available for readers and writers in Gloucester, to build and develop future literary opportunities in the city

Are you a reader or writer or perhaps work with a cultural organisation in Gloucester city? We are scoping out what's on offer in the city and would love you to complete our survey if you have a moment. Links below. www.dialect.org.uk/coursesworks...

08.09.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Nigel, who do you review for? We have some forthcoming collaborative pamphlets from Dialect Press.

08.09.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Rosanna! (and apologies for slow response - I am rarely here and still working it all out! ) Would love to know how your students get along.

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Poetry Submission Opportunities β€” The Gloucestershire Poetry Society an all-inclusive space for Page Poetry & Spoken Word The Gloucestershire Poetry Society provide a number of annual submission opportunities for local, national and international poets to submit to, from poetry computations to annual anthologies.

Looking forward to judging this year's GPS Poetry Competition - deadline 30th September

www.thegloucestershirepoetrysociety.co.uk/open-poetry-...

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Level Up your poetic craft monthly small group mentoring - a tweak (and more)

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31.07.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Juliette Morton; The first of 12 poets from Gloucestershire photographed in Stroud this last weekend. @jlmmorton.bsky.social

21.07.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

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Brilliant way to end a bonkers term - 2 poems in the latest Under the Radar, a journal I've longed to be in πŸ’š Much gratitude to editors Jane Commane and Matt Merritt whose care for the work and professionalism is second to none and whose dedication keeps the wheels of poetryland turning. Thank you πŸ™

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Lost Mythos on the road this weekend πŸ™ŒπŸ½ Ledbury Fringe Saturday, Totnes Fringe Sunday. Come say hi! 🌞

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Poets at Priddy Festival 🧑
Sean Borodale, Philip Rush, Alyson Hallet & Yrs Truly

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Tenderfoot or, on irresolute, non-cathartic narrative choices

On writing about chronic illness and walking and THAT book 🦢🏼🦢🏼🦢🏼🦢🏼🦢🏼🦢🏼🦢🏼🦢🏼🦢🏼🦢🏼

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09.07.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Writer's block and other mixed metaphors

On 'Writer's Block' ...

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Solstice / Standstill Why did the druid bring a ladder to the solstice? He heard it was the high point of the year...

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SEVEN SPRINGS πŸ’¦ on the bunfight over the source of Britain's longest river... and rave and care and trespass... an extract from 'Tenderfoot' on Caught By the River 🎣
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#creativenonfiction
#riverchurn
#tenderfoot
#grief
#cancer
#care
#rave
#righttoroam

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Aberystwyth Poetry Festival last weekend, a gem!

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Sean Borodale & Alun Hughes β€” Dialect Announcing a New Collaboration: Sean Borodale & Alun Hughes

Excited for this new collaboration with Dialect Press - coming 2026

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It seems ridiculous that I got a mention on 6 Music tonight with my brilliant collaborator Mara Simpson, but here we go! Just when I was feeling like a total imposter ...

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Heading to Priddy Folk Festival this year? Come and say hello! It'll be my absolute joy to be reading poems with the brilliant @seanborodale @allyson_hallett and @yewtreepressofstroud 🀍 The world is too much - join us to recharge, restore, nurture your anima, ready to go again another day 🀍

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β€˜Life as a creative genius is no bed of roses’ – my week as a nightingale | The Observer Each week, Simon Barnes hears what the last seven days has been like for a member of the animal kingdom

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