JLM Morton

Dr JLM Morton is a writer and poet whose work explores contemporary 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, Lighthouse, One Hand Clapping, Anthropocene and in the ethnography Living With Water (Manchester University Press, 2023). In 2023 she was longlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize. Lake 32 is her debut pamphlet (2020) which, along with two micropamphlets Sentient and Cuda ex nihilo, is published by Yew Tree Press. Juliette’s latest collaboration is Glos Mythos, with comedy writer Emma Kernahan and illustrator Bill Jones (Dialect Press, 2023). Her first full poetry collection Red Handed is forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books (2024). 

In 2024 she is poet in residence at Sladebank Woods, a semi-urban woodland located between a housing estate and an AONB where she’s exploring ‘human=nature’ entanglements.

Juliette is founder and Director of Dialect and, with over 20 years’ experience working in adult education, she creates warm, friendly and constructive spaces where writers can grow and learn.

‘The literary daughter of Alan Garner – female psychogeography, a rallying call to protect not only the land, but our right to roam.’ - Laline Paull FRSL

‘‘[Morton’s poetry is] exceptional both in its poise and in its vivid metaphoric hold.’ - Niall Campbell, Judge Geoffrey Dearmer Prize

‘Stunning writing - a vivid segue from one generation to the next. A glorious first winner.’ - Jamila Gavin, author and Laurie Lee Prize Judge