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COLLECTION · RELEASED AUGUST 31ST, 2026

Borrowed Ground

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JLM Morton

£11.99

£14.00

RRP £13.99 / $18.99 / €16.99

114 pages, 5" × 8"
Released August 31st, 2026
ISBN 978-1-918628-09-8

Borrowed Ground is JLM Morton's second full collection, a reckoning with land, climate grief, and the entanglement of human and more-than-human life. Rooted in the woodland and river country of the west of England, the poems move between close observation and myth: a central creation sequence follows a black pine through litany and shaped, fragmenting text, while a closing sequence stages the drowning and mythic rebirth of Sabrina, goddess of the Severn. Morton works through erasure, found material, and liturgical forms without losing lyric precision, holding ecological dread against humour, domestic comfort, and ancient, feminist modes of knowing.

PRAISE FOR BORROWED GROUND

Borrowed Ground is a generous meditation on land, connection, and recovery that explores the borrowedness of our lives and works to bring neglected voices forward. These poems are formally inventive and lyrically captivating; they dissolve into the memory of weather and emerge into the knowledge of the black pine.
   — Alycia Pirmohamed

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JLM Morton is a writer, celebrant and creative producer based in the west of England. Her poetry has featured on BBC6 Music and is widely published, including in Poetry Review , Poetry London , Rialto , Magma , Mslexia , and The London Magazine . Winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer, Laurie Lee and Poetry Archive Worldview Prizes, her debut poetry collection was Red Handed (Broken Sleep Books, 2024), highly commended by the Forward Prizes and a Poetry Society book of the year. Her first nonfiction book is forthcoming in…

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