Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal – Issue 11.5 – JLM Morton – Wonder As Liberation Practice

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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.

Join us for an evening of remembrance poetry

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

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 ...

Announcing a new collaboration

Living Matter: a sentient collaboration

A survey of what’s currently available for readers and writers in Gloucester, to build and develop future literary opportunities in the city

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.

monthly small group mentoring - a tweak (and more)

or, on irresolute, non-cathartic narrative choices

and other mixed metaphors

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