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: August 2017

  • THE ALL NEW SWIMMER’S CLUB

    The all new swimmer’s club. Now over at the classic indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe:  

  • The Dostoyevsky Wannabe Switchboard

    Lots of goodies over here: https://switchboard.dostoyevskywannabe.com/  

  • KIDDIEPUNK THIS IS YATES

    FASCINATING 12 MIN DOCUMENTARY FROM FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA “Less a confessional documentary than a mixtape that samples a copious personal archive, “This is Yates” pan-n-scans a wide track of time, running from the near-present back beyond pre-pubescence to home movies of time before birth.” Available over here from the classic indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe: https://switchboard.dostoyevskywannabe.com/kiddiepunk-this-is-yates/

  • PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT

    MY NEW BOOK, PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT, IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE RAD DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE. ALMOST CHEAP AS CHIPS . . . BUY IT HERE: https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/original/play_yr_kardz_right HERE ARE SOME BLURBS “Marcus Slease’s gentle & generous engagements with the ephemera of almost-everyday life, coupled with a variant of bill bissett’s Lunarian English, and a sensuous, curious,…

  • Swimmer’s Club Seven Up

    Seven of my current loves over at Swimmer’s Club. It is hard to choose seven. They are only seven. But maybe a good seven. There is  the Czech nomadic surrealism of Lukas Tomin, the Canadian surrealism of Guy Maddin. Sun Araw, The Seventh Seal, Leonora Carrington, Chika Sagawa. So many greats. What a life! Check…

  • THE HOUSE OF ZABKA

    Excerpt from my novel in progress The Autobiography of Don Whiskers   A hybrid novel (in the form of an immigrant memoir, prose poetry, and interlocking surreal flash fictions).   Some influences include Richard Brautigan, Miranda July, Lukas Tomin, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, and Leonora Carrington (plus more).   This except is called THE HOUSE OF…

  • BLUE PUEBLO

    GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI’S “BLUE PUEBLO” OVER AT EMPTY MIRROR. RIMBAUDIAN NIGHTMARISH FALL OF MAN LOVE RECOVERY DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/grzegorz-wroblewski-blue-pueblo.html

  • MUSHEE PIEZ & FRIED PINEAPPULZ

    AN INTERVIEW WITH POET MARCUS SLEASE IN CELEBRATION OF HIS UPCOMING BOOK FROM DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE OVER AT ENTROPY https://entropymag.org/mushee-piez-fried-pineappulz-an-interview-with-poet-marcus-slease/