Never Mind the Beasts

Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

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Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Silcock has made his home in such places as Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom – experiences that inform his surreal-absurd stories.

Month: July 2009

  • This is the mother___ remix

    Brian Howe and Marcus Slease This is the motherfucking remix

  • Elblag

    Turkey did not work out due to financial constraints with paying for visas and notarizing diplomas etc. (over £500). So I am off to Poland in a few days. We are all moving out of this London flat and going separate ways. Strange feeling. Narrowing my life to one bag again. Staying at a friends…

  • Set magazine from 1961 and 1963

    SET Edited and published by Gerrit Lansing, copyright 1961. Cover by Harry Martin. Includes:Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Stephen Jonas, Edward Dorn, John McGavern, Robert Kelly, John Wieners, Frater Perdurabo, Gerrit Lansing. Issue #1 available NOW in pdf format. SET 2 Edited and published by Gerrit Lansing. Cover by Harry Martin. Copyright 1963. SET 2 features…

  • streetcake six now live

    check it: Streetcake

  • Kerouac Song

    From Chris Hickey: In March, I wrote and recorded a song, each day, for about three weeks. The result is “Razzmatazz” – 16 songs, just vocal & guitar, recorded in my bedroom on a hand-held voice recorder. Here’s a link to listen to or download “Kerouac” from the new CD: Thanks! – Chris Hickey  …

  • check it!!!

    Welcome to Tony Tost’s America. My name is Tony Tost, and this is my America: Tony Tost’s America Set 1 Big Maybelle, “Ocean of Tears” Billie Jo Spears, “Get Behind Me Satan and Push” Leonard Cohen, “Don’t Go Home With Your Hard On” Carl Story, “You Don’t Love God (If You Don’t Love Your Neighbor)”…

  • from the korean notebooks

    The sumptial colonel is losing weight with Zoloft& gaining weight with prozac. Wings have been useless. He walks the stairs to Wonderland. He’s an eliptical machine. Fingernails chalkthe walls. The sumptial colonel has headedeast hasdroppedverbs into simple tenses. His marriage loins gone drury. Sugar in a roundclay pot. The peace. The wasp. The slope. Singing…

  • bits and bobs unmolded from the London notebook

    I’m testing my banality. Do you see this moon tissue? Snail shells were once used as an allegory for both grave and resurrection. The bright green and orange parrots are outside my window. They are beautifully lost. There are more things in a closed box than an open one. Make haste yea gentlemen who ride…

  • my intro to poetry blog from 2005

    Interesting to revisit this blog for an intro to poetry class I taught at UNC Greensboro. All non-poets and non-English majors. A lot of fun. I miss it!!! intro to poetry

  • some pics from Soundeye

    http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649

  • Mike Wallace interview with Jack Kerouac (1958)

    MW: Sounds like a self-destructive way to seek GodJK: Oh, it was tremendous. I woke up sick about the fact that I had come back tomyself, to the flesh of life…MW: You mean the Beat people want to lose themselves?JK: Yeah. You know, Jesus said to see the Kingdom of Heaven you must loseyourself…something like…

  • soundeye festival in cork

    Leaving Wednesday morning. Lots of great poets to mingle with. My first public reading from Godzenie. Super stellar lineup: SoundEye #138-12 July 2009Cork, Ireland Wed July 8 • 18:00 • admission freeFirkin Crane, Shandon, CorkReading: Sean Bonney (UK) + Mairéad Byrne (Irl/USA) + Keith Tuma (USA) Thu July 9 • 18:00 • admission freeFirkin Crane,…

  • from Alien Memory Machine (work in progress)

  • selection from Godzenie

  • poet and performance artist and musician and music critic Brian Howe

    check out Scorpion Whip’s first track: Night Heist

  • pinhole visions

    A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture. Simply explained, it is a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. Cameras using small…