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Author: Marcus Silcock
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A Hut is Constructed of Loose Stones this is part the story of Genesis a human is being collected the book of things the book of bodies a pool of chlorine the skull of a Frank or the skull of slug a lover gives love while snoring while thinking about England one has…
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never mind the beasts has going on blogspot since 2004. Gonna see what word press can do . . .
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from Godzenie (BlazeVox 2009)
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My right knee is popping it has popped before but it is really popping and when it pops it is a painful pop. I’m afraid of it exploding. My left knee also pops. It is not a painful pop. After the pops in my right knee my leg gives out or up. I can’t put…
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A Hut is Constructed of Loose Stones this is part the story of Genesis a human is being collected the book of things the book of bodies a pool of chlorine the skull of a Frank or the skull of slug a lover gives love while snoring while thinking about England one has to become…
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The Poetry Foundation and Dirty Money???? . . .
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Now here’s an ear . . . Don Yorty reading “Poet Laundromat” in Philly’s Chapterhouse Cafe
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Tim Atkins reading at Maintenant Croatia event. Innovative British and European poetry organised by SJ Fowler. Thank goodness we have it!
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poem written from a prompt in new issue of HOUSEFIRE. Check it here: HOUSEFIRE
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“Kenny Goldsmith was correct in saying that poetry is fifty years behind visual art. Both he and the poetry foundation are, in a certain respect, the vanguard of poetry as it enters a phase wherein its absolute nullity is realized and becomes immediately displaced into these forceful gestures of grandeur which are not too different…
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This makes living in the U.K. worthwhile. One of my favourite living poets. He is an unforgettable reader/performer. check it!!! Poetry and interview over here. interview with British poet Jeff Hilson some sample poems from Rinker with the interview: Jeff Hilson poems from Rinker
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The Claudius App is proud to announce the publication of César Vallejo’s “Lost” Interview, published in the Heraldo de Madrid in January 1931, recovered, translated, and generously annotated by Kent Johnson. Over coffee with the Heraldo’s interviewer (Q: César Vallejo, why have you come here? CV: Well, to drink coffee.), Vallejo discusses precision,Trilce in relation…
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remixed from my journals and notebooks from travel, 18th century travel handbooks, current music on the spin (this one was influenced by Le Tigre), Basho, Herodotus, Buddhism, google sculpting, and of course memory . . . mapping new maps into the present rather than clinging to the past. . . another attempt at an expansive…
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Maintenant Croatia in association with the the Croatian Writers Association April Thursday 26th 2012 – 7pm – Entrance Free – at Europe House 32 Smith Square, London SW1P near Westminster / Pimlico tube stations from Croatia: Damir Sodan – Tomica Bajsic Ervin Jahic – Ivan Herceg not from Croatia: Tom Warner – Marcus Slease – Tim Atkins Mark Waldron…
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This is an apology for the Quakers. I have mounted my horse. This is a beautiful picture of a wail. The fire door says keep shut. My interest is to ungain a name. I leave the house to walk the public streets where animals and children disappear. Forced into blocks with blankly confident boys. To…
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TODAY I AM A ROUGED DOWAGER Today I am a rouged dowager. After getting up, I, maid of the paternity lie, will climb on the face, powder on the cheeks and the palm and paint a little rouge. I have come out from the refuge of Bilkent. To break wax to break the oozing from…
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2nd revision with some splicing/sampling from my own travel notes from living in Turkey. The other versions were from a 19th century handbook of travel. TODAY I AM A ROUGED DOWAGER Today I am a rouged dowager. After getting up, I, maid of the paternity lie, will climb on the face, powder on the cheeks…
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TODAY I AM A ROUGED DOWAGER Today I am a rouged dowager. After getting up, I, maid of the paternity lie, will climb on the face, powder on the cheeks and the palm and paint a little rouge. I have come out from the refuge of Jehol. A fortified town, in a wild and rugged mountain…
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TODAY I AM A ROUGED DOWAGER I have been pre-occupied in the hobhouse. Consisting of a white kilt and kettle drums beating we are forming a new delightful spectacle. But for who? I have slept on my rectum. A man very fat and not very tall with a fine face is repairing the highways. The…
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from Dzanc Books: A Question Mark Above the Sun Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem “by” Frank O’Hara Expanded Second Edition Kent Johnson Preface by Eric Lorberer Foreword David Koepsell Afterwords by Jeremy Noel-Tod and Joshua Kotin “At the end of last year, an extraordinary work of detective criticism briefly ap- peared, despite…
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Grace to be Born and Live as Variously as Possible——
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Olympia, Turkey two hundred fifteen years ago we crossed a large court and entered a large door they could tell where we were by the barking of dogs Jenny exclaimed “why these weeds are grapevines” tanglesome and troublesome we passed among the houses seeing no road we took a large hill to the left it…
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some ridiculous policing by the NEA. Well behind the times: NEA shoots itself in the foot!
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Still revising The Heyday. Lots of re-seeings, re-readings, re-samplings, mixings and so on. The Heyday (2005-2012) is travel writing. Basho. Walt Whitman. Herodotus. 18-19th travel handbooks, Buddhism, ethics and suffering and so on. My experiences in South Korea, Katowice Poland, Elblag Poland, Ankara Turkey, Rome yadda yadda . . . . Sometimes living in extreme…
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The end of week is coming fast. It has been my spring break. I got an HIV test (negative), some blood tests for all sorts of goodies (awaiting), vision test (and a new pair of glasses coming in two weeks), 20 new poems (and revisions). So a health check and writing week. Got two terrific…
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Ron Padgett, like so many great NY School poets, is also a fantastic translator. I love his translations of French poetry. They are so fluid and contemporary. I especially love his translations of Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars. Blaise Cendrars’ Complete Poems is one of my favourite collections of poetry ever. He is also a nomadic poet par…
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Ｉ‘ｍ ｉｎ Ｏｓａｋａ， Ｊａｐａｎ SLEPT in a capsule．More ｌａｔｅｒ． Ｊａｐａｎ is ｖｅｒｙ ｃｌｅａｎ． 乗れ そおｎ
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the possibility of warmth & contact in the human relationship :as juxtaposed against the materialistic pig of a technological world,where relationships…
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re-enjoying The Louisiana Purchase. Purchase The Louisiana Purchase if you haven’t purchased it already!!! fab review here (one of many): review of Jim Goar’s The Louisiana Purchase
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A big thanks to Michael Zand for such an insightful review of my book and work and also Tom Chivers for publishing it in the magazine Hand+Star: review of From Smashing Time by Michael Zand
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There is nothing new under the sun etc.
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me and Peter Jaeger at Camarade II. Photo by Alexander Kell. Special thanks to S.J. Fowler (Steven) for making it all happen!!
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last night 15th Feb 2012
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The OPEN Ealing Arts Project (113 Uxbridge Rd, London W5) presents its first OPEN poetry event on Wednesday 15 February 2012, which will comprise readings from guest poets plus an open-mic session.CHRISTODOULOS MAKRIS put together the line-up for this inaugural event – which OPEN aims to turn into a regular series – Christodoulos Makris, SJ Fowler, Marcus Slease and Cherry Smyth are reading. Start time is 8pm…
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Me and Peter Jaeger. re-worked 1950’s science fiction story complete with hymn
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fantastic late 70’s songs!!!
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dedication to Stacy Doris A great reading here by Tim Atkins with a tribute to Stacy Doris.
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fantastic night last night!!! Rich Mix in east London. In the heart of hipsterdom! Collaboration of U.K. poets!!!! Some samples above!!! Special thanks to Steven Fowler!!! Fab poet plus event organiser extraordinaire!!!
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The Dutiful Sonspecial thanks Joel Oppenheimer tweedle de dum dumthis is a sliding pond sonnetI should be hung but instead I’m hornyand doing research on celeryif you were a plum treeif you were a peach tree(to be continued)
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reading at The Windmill. Brixton. London. 4th Feb 2012.
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reading at this tonight in Brixton. Revised version of Vale Tudo poems . . . if you are out and about in Brixton come check it out: fight night in Brixton
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No War, No Economic Sanction, No Nukes, No Islamic Republic – NOT A WORD LESS! The war propaganda of the West/Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is all over the map. People in the West rightly want to do something about it. In order to take the right position, a short analysis of…
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A STUDY OF A HORSE FOR DOCTOR MARABOUT: http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2012/01/grzegorz-wroblewski.html check it out!!!
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books checked out from the British Poetry Library for the week: 1) Prose of the Trans-siberian by Blaise Cendrars (trans by Tony Baker)2) Just Space by Joanne Kyger3) Kodak by Blaise Cendrars (trans by Ron Padgett) also re-reading for third time: 3:15 by Bernadette Mayer, Jen Hoffer, Danika Dinsmore, Lee Anne Brown (amazing book!!!)
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read the preface here: new shearsman book on the poetry of Araki Yasusada A little background here: http://jacketmagazine.com/09/yellowbody.html IN SEARCH OF THE AUTHENTIC OTHER: THE POETRY OF ARAKI YASUSADA by MARJORIE PERLOFF Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada was one hell of a book. A must for the collection. Buying this book of…
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An excellent review of the nomadic poetics of Grzegorz Wroblewski in Jacket 2. Read it here: the world according to GW
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Spicy frozen pizza for Christmas dinner. A 4AM taxi pickup to Heathrow on Boxing Day. London-Paris-Salt Lake City. Drinking Melissa Tea. It was my favourite tea when I lived in Poland. I have finished The Fertility Show (formally Nerve Movie). Sent it off to a publisher or two. Will have to wait a few months.…
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doggerel for the masses by Kent Johnson These various pieces, initially published in journals by Craig Dworkin under the name of “Kent Johnson” (with exception of the tour de force Afterword, presented here for the first time), follow from his call, in the Introductory essay to Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP,…
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Cold toes and cold hands in Wood Green. Trying to save on heating. Smashing Time is done and needs to find a home. I am 60 pages into Nerve Movie (poems written during my commute on the underground from Wood Green to Hammersmith then Hammersmith to Richmond). When I first came to London in 2008…
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check it out: Karol Piotr Ostrowski
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Every entry on this blog starts with a hyperlink called text. It is the default setting.
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diggin this prog rock band from copenhagen: pinkuonoizu
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some of my poems from manuscript Smashing Time in new issue of the Norwegian magazine La Granada
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The poetry foundation . . . KEEP OUT . . . pic by Tom Raworth . . .
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covers project . . . Bernadette Mayer’s Maple Syrup sonnet . . . north London . .. near Horse Hospital . .
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Steven Fowler reading the other night for his book release of Minimum Security Prison Dentisry at the Horse Hospital in North London. Great evening. Many fine readings !!!
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Jeff Hilson reading the other night for Steven Fowler’s book release of Minimum Security Prison Dentisry at the Horse Hospital in North London. Great evening. Many fine readings !!!
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Tim Atkins reading the other night for Steven Fowler’s book release of Minimum Security Prison Dentisry at the Horse Hospital in North London. Great evening. Many fine readings !!!
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Holly Pester reading the other night for Steven Fowler’s book release of Minimum Security Prison Dentisry at the Horse Hospital in North London. Great evening. Many fine readings !!!
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reading the other night for Steven Fowler’s book release of Minimum Security Prison Dentisry at the Horse Hospital in North London. Great evening. Many fine readings !!!
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I take the liberty of forwarding this post by Ian Keenan. It concerns John Barr, the President of the Poetry Foundation. It appeared today at Montevidayo blog. It might give some “context” for comprehending why the Poetry Foundation Board is so loose and fast about trying to arrest and send to prison young poets who…
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My chapbook Smashing Time is now available for free (digital version). Thank you MIPOesias. This book was written shortly after returning to live in London. From 2010 to 2011. Influenced by NY School poets (Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer, and Ted Berrigan mostly). Also the buddhism and writing of Philip Whalen. Also my poet friends Tim…
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download for free . . . or buy print version if you so desire . . . art by Grzegorz Wroblewski poems by Marcus Slease from Smashing Time: poems from Smashing Time!
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occupy the POETRY FOUNDATION!
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a set of post-punk visual poetry ceramic tile coasters by Grzegorz Wroblewsk ……………… YIPPIE!!! post punk ceramic coaster
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SNOBS She: I am made to BLOW! He: I am made to BLOW! Chorus: We are all made to BLOW! to blow . . .
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taking a 12 hour bus from London to Amsterdam. £30. Delayed summer holiday. Staying on a boat called the Gandalf. Free breakfast included. Never been to Amsterdam. Goin on the cheap. It was Amsterdam versus Bath. Tickets were the same price on the bus. Writing The Fertility Show. Will see what comes up with in…
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zimZalla object 011 will be Deuter Kelner, a set of post-punk visual poetry coasters by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Each coaster measures 9cm x 9cm. Available individually or as a complete set of six. Ideal for the dining room, scullery or mead hall. Out and available to buy on 1st November.
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Recieved Murat Nemet-Nejat’s The Spiritual Life of Replicants. Blade Runner. Skin jobs. Also Seyhan Erozcelik’s Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds. This is the real deal. This Turkish poetry needs wide wide circulation among poets and non-poets. Can’t wait to dig in!!Also some Ozdemir Asaf over here:http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-2/asaf.htm
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peter Jaeger’s Poets
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Covers project . . . Musa Mckim
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it was a nice reading and collaboration with Tim Atkins. Comic book poetry. Check it out over here: comic book collaboration with Tim Atkins
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A foundation for poetry???? NOPE! A dishonour to the works of the great poets it houses in its dead museum.As Frances Kruk puts it so well. The Multi million dollar building of the Poetry Foundation is: an homage to the glass temples of skyscraping capitalism. All of these spaces are gated and intolerant to the disobedient, the…
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two turns two towers
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A couple days ago, at the arraignment hearing in Chicago for Stephanie Dunn, the poet and artist arrested at behest of Poetry Foundation a few weeks back for a performance-based protest at the PF Wine and Cheese Gala, an official representative of the Poetry Foundation called on the judge to send Dunn to Cook County Penitentiary…
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The Comarade Project. Collaborations between U.K. poets. My Collaboration is with one of my favourite all time poets: Tim Atkins. It’s a poetry comic. Available now. Here is the announcement: Delighted to announce the latest limited edition chapbook from The Red Ceilings Press…Maintenant: the Camarade project featuring Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Patrick Coyle & Holly Pester; Sam…
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I am One Hundred Times More A Pale Apple Dream(dear Ted and Clark, Hello)my belly I mean loveThis Time We Are Botha toad in the holemy flake my flake and my furrow
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I am One Hundred Times More A Pale Apple Dream breathing thru a wet sheet dry gooseberry white pasta grapes on the nipples banging around my hands my belly I mean love coco cola and the Mormons santa awash in the seafront drips of beans with white cheese a wave in this faraway town
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Asleep in Vallejo California all of them milkinggreen machines Duran Duran a pairof titsAn Abundance of Lady Bugshello Jeff HilsonNew Loversfresh bakedloavesClitoral Orals ah veneration Oh LA! Groaning Avenue B or A or
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Onkel G by Grzegorz Wroblewski
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Opening the Eyelid (for David Rattray) ripped by rum and oranges we’ll picnic here there’s no difference between homecoming and going God’s whiskers on Jesus skin I have an inside to my outside fireflies in a leaf filtred limelight thereby fulfilling a prophecy every moment empty space shines bathtub rings I think of your children…
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In This World We Do Mutt (for Joseph Ceravolo) my doll is firm aboriginal blubber from this bottle we did drink pull up the blanket affection rides home mother is windy built on the body is coming these knees are a spongy breeze in Seattle we did chow on clams look at this saint’s hat…
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Love Cyclops(for Piero Heliczer) the vaginas of birds in burnt grass in MiltonKeynesmy feet as they entered the reedsstone stoneor so I have heardheaven is a pebblein the eye signatureeye weeping bird bathsher bobby pinsher bobbythis bear daythere are no bearsit scares mejoints in the grasssure cansugarcanefaded blue jeanson my wilting facein Patagonia answer me
Never Mind the Beasts 