Never Mind the Beasts

Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

about

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 2016

  • FAREWELL NOMADIC SURREALIST PERFORMANCE IN LONDON

    Part of the reading from last night at Xing the Line. Poems and stories from ongoing manuscript The Green Monk. Influenced by Mormonism, Lydia Davis, Ivor Cutler, James Tate, and others. https://player.vimeo.com/video/171918072 Xing the Line Farewell Reading Part Two from JJMars on Vimeo.  

  • XING THE LINE FAREWELL READING

    I read at Xing the Line last night. My last reading before leaving to live in Madrid. On the eve of the big vote. Maybe I will not be gone long. Who knows. I hope I am still an EU citizen after today. Then again I have been meaning to change my passport for an…

  • OHIO EDIT

    “At the lunch table there is a new man. He has been to Dubai and it is very hot. But worse than that is Vegas he says. He gets very excited about Vegas. You have to step into the casinos to cool off he says. I don’t know how to gamble he says. Did you…

  • Cosmonaut’s Avenue

    “Creatures.” My ongoing manuscript Never Mind the Beasts. In the new issue of Cosmonaut’s Avenue. http://www.cosmonautsavenue.com/marcus-slease-creatures/

  • REVIEW OF RIDES BY LAURA WETHERINGTON

    The best review of my work ever. Such a generous and insightful review of Rides. Thank you Laura Wetherington. https://laurawetherington.com/2016/06/17/marcus-sleases-rides/

  • SOUL SUCKING

    DO YOU PREFER SUCKING A SOUL OR HAVING YOUR SOUL SUCKED . . . . https://player.vimeo.com/video/169079845GREAT EXPECTATIONS from JJMars on Vimeo.