Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton
Broken Sleep Books
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 centres to wildfire tourism and floodwater. A long sequence addressed to Black Pine becomes both prayer and argument, as Morton tests the language of blessing against collapse, grief, and the uneasy ethics of belonging. Throughout, the collection holds beauty and brutality in the same frame, insisting that attention is not innocence, but a form of witness.
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