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: June 2011

SZMATA – Kelner & Mikes – SHITASS (with lyrics)

June 29, 2011

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one of my poem plays published in Everday Genius

June 24, 2011

YIPPIE: . . . love publishing genius and everday genius . . a happy camper. . . thank you Adam . . . check it out: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/06/marcus-slease.html
now one of my favourite literary journals

June 24, 2011

great great magazine!! Picked up two issues last night at the x-ing the line reading of Vincent Katz and Barry Schwabsky. Great reading. Really terrific stuff. All the greats in Vanitas. NY and beyond!!! Good critical and thematic stuff. Art and poetry. Good for the eyes and ears and all-around brain. Feels nice in the hands…
Marcus Slease reading at Maintenant Slovakia in east London 18th June 2011

June 20, 2011
The possibilities of life/art/community

June 19, 2011

Fun reading last night!!! Really super enjoyed it. Good to feel the enjoyment. The pleasures of poetry/language/community. Really super happy to read from new work in the chapbook Balloons . . I like Balloons . . . I like the chapbook . . . Ewa rocks!!! the paper and string and smell of nail varnish…
reading tonight in east london

June 18, 2011

i am reading tonight with nice mix of poets. If you are around, come on out!!!! Will read some short short poem plays inspired by mr kenneth koch :-) Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications June Saturday 18th 2011 – 7pm – Entrance Free – The Rich Mix arts centre.…
Marcus Slease Chapbook Balloons (cover art Grzegorz Wroblewki. Made by Ewa))

June 10, 2011
gonna see this band next week in East London . . . yippie!!! Japanese Underground!!

June 9, 2011

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recovery mission: Tim Dlugos by Barry Schwabsky

June 6, 2011

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/018_02/7808
North Carolina in 2005

June 4, 2011

from my notebook in 2005. Greensboro, North Carolina. 26 MARCH 2005 still breathing A very intense dream the other night. don’t know if any of you out there ever feels a bit of despair over becoming wormfood, but lately the cycle has been a bit on the downside. Hence a dream to release my anxiety.…
The Unbearables . . . Mike Topp . . . etc.

June 3, 2011

The Unbearables are lightin my fire!! Mike Topp’s Shorts are Wrong is super super!! Still exploring Sharon Mesmer. Hm . . . thanks to Grzegorz Wroblewski over in Copenhagen for pointing me in their direction . . . http://virginformica.blogspot.com/ The Unbearables: http://www.unbearables.com/blog/
colin herd

June 1, 2011

just read the poems again . . . and became even happier!!! Very very happy!!! So many possibilities for poetry just when I was feeling that straight jacket again . . . . Eileen Myles, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer meet Colin Herd!!! Please don’t leave the island mr. Colin Herd . . . we need you!!!…
poems and interview with Colin Herd

June 1, 2011

This poet makes me excited about the future of poetry on this island . . . good interview too . . . really dig the poetry A LOT! interview: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-63-colin-herd/Poetryhttp://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/