Join JLM Morton for this immersive online workshop exploring how poetry can chart the landscapes of memory, emotion, and environment.
Blending creative cartography with lyrical writing, participants will create personal or collective ‘maps’ – of neighbourhoods, childhood places, imagined futures, or inner worlds – using poetry as the compass.
Inspired by work from poets such as Bhanu Kapil, Kei Miller and Natalie Diaz, and drawing on sensory prompts, spatial memory, and visual tools, this workshop invites participants to think about place not just as location, but as experience that is layered and shifting.
Details
Timing: Tuesday 21st April 2026, 6.00pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Fee: £27/20
This workshop was originally run by JLM Morton for the Poetry Society in January 2026 - it sold out so quickly, we thought we’d run it again here.
Your tutor
JLM Morton is a writer and celebrant from Gloucestershire. Her poetry has featured on BBC6 Music and appeared in Poetry Review, Rialto, Magma, Mslexia, The Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere. Her prose writing has won the Laurie Lee Prize, been longlisted for the Nan Shepherd prize and been published in Caught by the River, Oxford Review of Books and Elsewhere: A Journal of Place. Juliette is the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer and Poetry Archive Worldview Prizes and she is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her debut poetry collection Red Handed, was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and a Poetry Society Book of the Year (Broken Sleep Books, 2024).