Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton Palestine part poetic treatise

part poetic treatise

One of the main topics I write about is memory and cultural memory

shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize

political parallels animating Under Jui-yi Shan – imbues the collection it should be seen

Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton Palestine part poetic treatisePublished 31st August 2026 Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton is a lyric ecology of dread, devotion, and damaged inheritance, written from woods, lanes, riverbanks, and suburban edges where the nonhuman world keeps pressing its claims. These poems move between tight, image led lyrics and more expansive prose blocks, braiding birds, seeds, fungi, and weather with biblical echo, mythic return, and the daily abrasions of modern life, from fly tipping and job