Never Mind the Beasts

Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

Month: December 2013

  • HERE IS WEE ONLINE PERFORMANCE OF MY POEM A LOVE SUPREME. IT IS AN ATTEMPT AT COMPASSION. MEDITATION, DHARMA. ETC.  WRITTEN AND PERFORMED IN EAST LONDON DOCKLANDS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jkzwZiQ_Z8

  • (first take, draft, whatever . .) It’s one day from new years. We are getting to the end of 2013 and everyone is making lists. I haven’t made a list. If I made a list it would be a list of books I loved, or books I still haven’t read, but really I’m thinking about…

  • Super happy to have my work in the new issue of The Atlas Review with CA Conrad and other fine folks.  It is available for pre-order over here: http://theatlasreview.bigcartel.com/product/issue-3-preorder YIPPPIEEEE!!!

  • thanks for reading, glancing, clicking, stumbling upon etc etc etc. itr’s a noisy world on the internet. and irl life too. but even more on the internet. the internet is the noisiest place on the planet.

  • BY ROBERT DUNCAN GRAY IT’S GOOD. I LIKE IT. GIVE ME MORE ROBERT DUNCAN GRAY. read LUNCH MONEY AND OTHERS OVER AT THE CRUSHES OF POOR CLAUDIA: http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush/

  • christmas eve morning breakfast in poland: homemade pickled herring, lots of beautiful onions, soft warm bread, a coffee. a snowman with twenty five blinking lights.

  • IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE. I AM IN POLAND READING THE LION’S FACE. THANK YOU TIMVANDYKE AND TYPO and BAUDRILLARD http://www.typomag.com/issue16/vandyke.html

  • One of my fav poets. Zachary Schomburg. Reading over here for Likewise Folio (based in Provo, Utah not far from my parents. Hm.) Likewise Folio has some good stuff. Gonna read more of Likewise Folio soon. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/212094882/z%20schomburg%20%20final.mp3

  • Check it. City Lights podcast with Dodie Bellamy and Dennis Cooper: http://www.citylightspodcast.com/dennis-cooper-and-dodie-bellamy-celebrate-the-release-of-their-new-books-the-marbled-swarm-and-the-buddhist/

  • interview with the great Dodie Bellamy. Sophistication is so conformist. Oh yeah! Love Cunt Norton. The Letter of Mina Harker. Can’t wait for her TV Sutras. Interview over at Bomb Magazine: http://bombsite.com/issues/126/articles/7454

  • poem for my brother Aaron Slease (15th Dec 1982-7th June 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbOaoYLPmMc

  • A picture of me and Ewa and Bandit at our friend Chris’s house last night. This picture was taken after four joints, six beers, and some Iranian food. We all watched the dog chew the ball and we all wished we had the teeth to chew a ball like this dog. I could hear the…

  • We will serve food in jelly. Mouth grenades.  A concentrated form of sustenance and subsistence.  This is all you need to survive. Our slogan is: ‘My cranium is a helmet of the universe’. Starting off with a duo of basic flavours: chicken  and rosemary (chicken being at the core), to then develop the menu into a kaleidoscope of…

  • over at the fantastic OVERPASSBOOKS it’s How to be Alienation by Filip Marinovich http://overpassbooks.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/how-to-be-alienation-by-filip-marinovich.pdf

  • eileen myles. reading cool for you with a cool video of her dwelling space!!! https://vimeo.com/28244303

  • this makes me happy

  • http://eileenmyles.com/blog/ JUST WHAT I NEEDED THIS MORNING!

  • Up at the new Tenderloin. Waste. The city. The cows. The country. http://www.tender-loin.com/toder.html

  • Reading from new manuscript ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION at Poet’s As Saints. Hardy Tree Gallery. Erkembode Exhibit. Nov 23rd 2013. photos by Alexander Kell

  • A BIG THANKS TO JIM GOAR FOR THE GREAT QUESTIONS. WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT. LIKE NY SCHOOL POETS AND PHILIP WHALEN, AND POOR CLAUDIA. ALSO ABOUT NOMADIC POETICS AND TRAVEL AND SURREALISM. INTERVIEW UP NOW AT THE VOLTA/CONVERSANT http://theconversant.org/?p=5588