Denver Quarterly
there can still be overwhelming isolation
it is an organ to which
weirdly authenticating the material she draws from history' – Anne Stevenson
the poems offer a clear-sighted challenge to the risk of isolationism and powerless relativism
Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton scots Denver QuarterlyPublished 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