Borrowed Ground

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: 08/31/2026
ISBN: 9781918628098
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.28d