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: August 2013

  • DANI SANDAL GIVES US THE BIRD!

    Have you ever had a hit and stick? I had a pigeon that came to die on my balcony before I left for Spain. It wasn’t a hit and stick. It just came to the balcony during a storm. It was wet and smelly. I thought it would fly away. It did not. Here’s what…

  • Driving Our Car-Bianca Stone and Ben Pease

  • A GOOD PLACE FOR A VIKING

    (A dream. Katowice, Poland. 25th August 2013)Marcus Slease 

  • good morning valencia

    I drank horchata and looked at the gargoyles for three days. On the fourth day I re-discovered my curly locks.Valencia is a very fine city with a park down the middle. The park used to be a river. There are many bridges. AUGUST 13TH 2013. VALENCIA, SPAIN.marcus slease

  • GOOD MORNING KATOWICE

    In ING bank Katowice. Hoping to poo soon in Poland. There is a lot of pork in Poland . Some chicken. Very little beef. Sometimes fish. I am not really a meat man. I am fish man. A fish meat man. Ewa is trying to close her account from two years ago. They take over…

  • THE FUTURE

    In downtown Katowice, on Mariacka Street, we met a woman on stilts. We were in a pub called Kato. Kato had well designed street art inside its plywood walls. It was a make-shift pub. I drank my cold yellow beer. It was very fizzy and sweet and I held it by the handle. The Polish…

  • Homeless as a fly

    Homeless as a fly you lactated on my tongue  – — – ——— a pillow by night and a sack by day now my petals begin to fall (from Mu (so) Dream (window). Written while living in South Korea, 2006. Published by Poor Claudia in 2012: http://www.poorclaudia.org/print_slease.php

  • WHO GETS YOU WET?

    Last Christmas in Katowice, Poland I met a girl named Megi Szu and Lola in a Polish pub called Presja. They are Polish but they used English names. Or half English. Szu = shoe Megi = Maggie —————————— maggie shoe Lola = Lola We sat on an old couch with plastic flapping in the wind.…

  • a room of one’s own

    last time I was in Katowice it was Christmas. I sat in a little room with a giant snowman and lots of Russian dolls and wrote a flash fiction about Polish beavers. It was a story about my impressions of Poland and globalization. The Poles can do Gangnam style like no other. The story is…

  • from Valencia to Katowice

    In old stomping grounds of Katowice, Poland after 10 days in Spain. Valencia, Barcelona, Alicante. I will never visit Alicante again. It was a wasteland of thousands upon thousands of tourists, bright lights, consuming frenzy, over priced bottles of water. Everyone looking for a quick Euro. Lots of ripping off. Ripping off might be ok…

  • Mir Taqi Mir: Selected Poetry

        Mir Taqi Mir: Selected PoetrybyMir Taqi Mir THE MUGHAL EMPIRE IN INDIA (1526-1857) In the 1500’s the Mughals under their leader Babur made their way into India, expanding under Akbar the Great, and built one of the most remarkable empires in history before being suceeded by the rule of the British Empire. They…

  • Kopenhaga

    My close friend and excellent poet and artist and writer Grzegorz Wroblewksi has a brand new book out. and it ROCKS!! Big TIME! NY School poetry meets Kafka meets Polish poetry (bruLion etc.)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brulion Get it get it get it!! http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781938890000/default.aspx Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda. “Grim, glancingly beautiful, always necessary.”—Joshua…

  • Matt Cook’s A Spanish Cement Mixer

    Less than 24 hours till Spain. Barcelona and Valencia. Then on to Katowice, Poland. Thinking about traveling and exoticism. Came upon this wee poem by Matt Cook. From his book Proving Nothing to Anyone. Just out from Publishing Genius Press.

  • Horse Nihilist

    http://horsenihilist.com/main.html

  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Water’s Edge (Lyric Video)

  • Digital Roots Reading Series

  • Sparklehorse – Radio Sessions

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  • Dark Night of the Soul – Sparklehorse