Join The Poetry Society for this immersive workshop with JLM Morton 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 Alice Oswald, 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, shifting and always alive.

JLM Morton is a writer, celebrant and community arts producer from Gloucestershire in the west of England. 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).

We’re able to offer 2 bursary tickets to this workshop for those facing financial difficulty. Please email info@poetrysociety.org.uk to request one of the places. No proof of financial difficulty is required. bursary spots now filled

This workshop will take place on Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link 24 hours in advance of the workshop. Please note that this workshop will be recorded. This workshop is intended for an adult audience.

Tickets are £17 for members and £27 for non-members.