Marcus Slease

Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Slease 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 nomadic surrealist writing. His writing has been translated into Danish and Polish, featured in the Best British Poetry series, and has appeared in Tin House, Fence, and Poetry magazine, among others. He has performed his work at various festivals and events in Prague, Madrid, London, Bristol, Manchester, North Carolina, and Ireland. Currently, he lives in Castelldefels, Spain and teaches high school literature in Barcelona. He is working on a trilogy of nomadic surrealist novels. His latest book is The Green Monk (Boiler House Press).

THE BIG FIRE AT THE ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE

NOMADIC SURREALISM by Marcus SleaseJanuary 22, 2020

Meat from the Stones

NOMADIC SURREALISM by Marcus SleaseJanuary 18, 2020

Play Yr Kardz Right Part Two

NOMADIC SURREALISM by Marcus SleaseJanuary 7, 2020

Han Shan

NOMADIC SURREALISM by Marcus SleaseJanuary 7, 2020

Blackbox Manifold 23

NOMADIC SURREALISM by Marcus SleaseJanuary 5, 2020

Waiting Underground (Transitions) by Natasza Goerke

NOMADIC SURREALISM by Marcus SleaseDecember 23, 2019December 23, 2019

NOMADIC SURREALISM by Marcus SleaseDecember 22, 2019

The Feast Day Is Fast Approaching

This prose poem/flash fiction, entitled “Feast Day,” from my book The Green Monk (Boiler House Press 2018), is about the anticipation of the feast day. There are many feast days. You can create your own. Leonora Carrington and Salvador Dali liked to mix surrealism and food. It is a good mix. This prose poem is […]