Mini Poetry Workshop with JLM Morton
Join us on Saturday 11th May at Sladebank Woods near Stroud, Gloucestershire, for a thought-provoking mini poetry workshop with JLM Morton.
During this one hour workshop you will delve into the intricate web of relationships between humans and the nature, taking inspiration from our surroundings in this semi-rural / semi-urban woodland.
We invite you to join us in the woods for the guided walk at 1.30pm which will then be followed by a one hour poetry workshop starting at 2.30pm.
The workshop will channel the impressions, thoughts and reflections you will have gathered on the walk and turn them into a little bit of magic in the form of short poems. We hope to then have a reading / sharing at the end of the session.
Tickets for this event are FREE on a first-come-first-served basis to give us an idea of numbers. Use the link below to reserve your spot.
Please note: this workshop is aimed at adults but children are welcome to come and play while parents write.
About your tutor: JLM Morton
JLM Morton is co-Director of Dialect. She’s a writer and poet whose work explores rural experience and belonging, ancestry, place and practices of care, repair and solidarity across human and other-than-human worlds. Winner of the Laurie Lee, Geoffrey Dearmer, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Poetry and International Dylan Thomas Day prizes, her work is published widely including in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Magma, Poetry Birmingham, Places of Poetry, Sunday Telegraph and recently in Living With Water (Manchester University Press, 2023). In 2024 she was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, London Magazine Poetry Competition and for the Nan Shepherd Prize in 2024. Her first full poetry collection Red Handed is out with Broken Sleep Books in May (2024). Find her online at: jlmmorton.com
