Marcus Silcock
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In Progress
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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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falling in love with Piero
read read read read read the work of this giant!! Entering my top 8.5 favs poets of all eternity!!! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-piero-heliczer-1460471.html Read more.
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Richmond, West London
Richmond My new machine arrived today in a green Buddhashade after a night in New Orleans my handshakes were full of resin not green gray like they say on this… Read more.
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England’s Lane Bookshop
I just purchased a ton of indie poetry books at a massive discount at the bookshop in London called England’s Lane. The bookseller in charge of poetry really knows their… Read more.
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from Fractured Burps (in Progress)
Marchmont Street Soaps02890446574via hand signals outside the windowsucking the tips of impertinent fingersyou get A to BhuskypointI have a big appetite for lovesleeping on the floor on the sofaa number… Read more.
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crunching numbers second draft
Crunching Numbers the price of beans of which I am constitutedthe dude behind all that raintime has this shadow check this dog a boneevery man jack gets to be a wife the… Read more.
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some of my older work . . .from September 2005 . . . Desert City Reading . . . North Carolina
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Jim Goar’s Past Simple 10
up and ready to rock!!! Check it:Past Simple 10 Read more.
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ongoing from Fractured Burps manuscript . . . first draft
Crunching Numbers an earcheck breath from a hooded hook no pev no gup ya part of a slipper they call it a gulf time has this shadow sometimes a chant… Read more.
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reading from Hello Tiny Bird Brain (Knives Forks Spoons Press)
Soho Curzon . .. Hello Tiny Bird Brain . . . new poetry collection from Knives Forks and Spoon Press . . . check it out here: Hello Tiny Bird Brain… Read more.
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Hello Tiny Bird Brain launch
hello tiny bird brain Poetry at the Soho Curzon Wednesday August 31st 2011~ 7pm ~ Entrance free Marcus Slease launches ‘hello tiny bird brain’ Wayne Clements launches ‘western philosophy’ collections published by Knives forks… Read more.
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make your ways around London
it’s PECKHAM IN FURS!!!! AND POETS AT THE URBAN PHYSICS GARDEN Read more.
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play translated into English by Grzegorz Wroblewski
we need many more plays of Grzegorz Wroblewski translated into English . . . please please . . . money . . relationships . . happiness . . . and… Read more.
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love Stan Brakhage . . . visionary film making . . . for real . . .
Blues For Stan Brakhage from Michael Mayer on Vimeo. Read more.
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first draft (for Smashing Time Manuscript)
Brief Bio in sloppy joes in ear-muffs dropping coins for Dr. Pepper in the city of trailer parks in the jerks of god in a gumball machine in the Hamburger Helper in the nerf inside the unobstructed… Read more.
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interview with me for Hello Tiny Bird Brain
interview for Hello Tiny Bird Brain Read more.
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xing the line August 2011.m4v
low quality recording . . lispy voice . . . part one from Jeff Hilson and Sean Bonney’s reading series X-ing the Line . .. read with the beguiling revenge… Read more.
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in the great tradition of 20th century graphic poetry
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/seven-poems-oracle-lies-van-gasse/ Read more.
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Hello Tiny Bird Brain
My new book with poems from Elblag, Poland; Trieste, Italy; and London (UK) out now with nice wee press from northern England. Check out Hello Tiny Brain here: http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/theknivesforksandspoonspress/HOME.html Read more.
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Marcus Slease reading at Maintenant Slovakia
Held at the rich mix arts centre in Brick Lane, London on June 18th 2011, Emilia Haugovà and Ivan Štrpka were joined by a half dozen London-based poets to celebrate… Read more.
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The Herbarium – Marcus Slease
A translated Korean folk poem . . for the anthology of plant poems at the Urban Physics Garden in South London last week . . yippie . . . . Read more.
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some hot new translations of Grzegorz Wroblewski
3:am magazine is kickin in some fresh hot poetry . . . . check out G. Wroblewski . . . stellar as usual: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/grzegorz-wroblewski-5-poems/ Read more.
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Regent Street
30th June 2011I want to go more oval in the faceor perhaps trianglethis is a sonata for spoiling eyesa book left open in the rainI’m sitting on an egg timerI… Read more.
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cool interesting new magazine from Norway
esp dig Peter Jaeger and Thomas Krogsbol . . . . check it out: http://lagranada.no/ Read more.
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one of my poem plays published in Everday Genius
YIPPIE: . . . love publishing genius and everday genius . . a happy camper. . . thank you Adam . . . check it out: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/06/marcus-slease.html Read more.
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The possibilities of life/art/community
Fun reading last night!!! Really super enjoyed it. Good to feel the enjoyment. The pleasures of poetry/language/community. Really super happy to read from new work in the chapbook Balloons .… Read more.
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reading tonight in east london
i am reading tonight with nice mix of poets. If you are around, come on out!!!! Will read some short short poem plays inspired by mr kenneth koch :-) Maintenant… Read more.
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North Carolina in 2005
from my notebook in 2005. Greensboro, North Carolina. 26 MARCH 2005 still breathing A very intense dream the other night. don’t know if any of you out there ever feels… Read more.
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The Unbearables . . . Mike Topp . . . etc.
The Unbearables are lightin my fire!! Mike Topp’s Shorts are Wrong is super super!! Still exploring Sharon Mesmer. Hm . . . thanks to Grzegorz Wroblewski over in Copenhagen for… Read more.
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colin herd
just read the poems again . . . and became even happier!!! Very very happy!!! So many possibilities for poetry just when I was feeling that straight jacket again .… Read more.
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poems and interview with Colin Herd
This poet makes me excited about the future of poetry on this island . . . good interview too . . . really dig the poetry A LOT! interview: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-63-colin-herd/Poetryhttp://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/ Read more.
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a few new poems recorded
http://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/audio-recording-on-tuesday Read more.
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"Godzenie" play in Stimulus/respond
my poem play “Godzenie” in the latest issue of Stimulus/Respond . . . a fashion/architecture/art mag with some literature . . . visually centred mag . . check it out… Read more.
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lucifer poetics/ desert city reading series
The lucifer Poetics Group and the Desert City Reading Series (run by Ken Rumble) and the Blue Door (Todd and Laura Sandvik) and Carborro International Poetry Festival (organized by Patrick… Read more.
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my reading from 2005 . . . lucifer poetics . . . north carolina
I was surprised by this . . . forgot about this work . . . and my voice/accent has changed from all the foreign traveling and isolation . . . i… Read more.
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narratives (still very much in progress)
Irish Ninja Somewhere around the age of 20 I had been looking to get my accent back that would have been 1995 when I first came back to Milton Keynes… Read more.
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third revision
THE PRINCE OF MIST BY THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOW OF THE WIND this version left blank due to rules regarding blog posted poems and submissions to mags… Read more.
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saturday morning revision
THE PRINCE OF MIST BY THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOW OF THE WIND I’m petite Asian and can handle any cock they fix everything here take your sandals… Read more.
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Friday night makings and readings
Ewa is putting nail polish on chapbook cover of chapbook Balloons. The ink with title and name did not dry on Napalese paper. Some copies of cover painting have now been… Read more.
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THE PRINCE OF MIST BY THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
(friday afternoon. Tasmac. Northwest London. 10 min break time . . . recollecting in tranquility the delights of living in Ankara and feeling that thing commonly called nostalgia but for… Read more.
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bored no longer
Jeff Hilson’s In the Assarts (My fav Hilson yet!!!) Tim Atkins Petrarch (from Barque Press) (my fav Atkins yet!!) Hilson and Atkins Atkins and Hilson a cold drink of water in the desert of… Read more.
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where is boredom?
It is raining in London. I am in Kingsbury. At a business school teaching EFL. The job will end next Thursday. I am searching for jobs again. To survive (shelter… Read more.
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Being Generous
Tim Atkins has written a fantastic review about a book that influenced me a lot when I lived in Poland and continues to inform me sense of what is possible.… Read more.
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my interview and poems over at 3:AM magazine
interview at 3:AM magazine poems from smashing time at 3:AM magazine big thanks to Steven Fowler . . . Read more.
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WHAT’S HOT!
I just ate a pig’s ear. I am trying to forget about it. It was chewy and from Bulgaria. A Bulgarian gave it to me. I can still taste it.… Read more.
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Mike Topp
THE FAVOURITE THINGS OF MIKE TOPP AT THE MAGAZINE THE RUMPUS. IT IS A KIND OF OBJECT INTERVIEW. MIKE TOPP IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ABSURDISM AND 21ST CENTURY SURREALISM. WHO IS… Read more.
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some paintings by Grzegorz Wroblewski
some paintings of Grzegorz Wroblewski they are even better live in person . . . . so happy happy gluck lick Ewa and I have two of his paintings on… Read more.
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publishing genius
terrific indie publishing . . . restores my hope . . . check it out: publishing genius Read more.
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Chris Toll’s Disinformation Phase: The Pilgrim Dreaming
Publishing Genius has some interesting work . . . no reason poetry can’t connect like Indie music scenes in the 80’s and 90’s or punk music in the 70’s .… Read more.
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power money and fame
small time? Read more.
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DEUTER – PUSTA ZIEMIA
The empty earth . . . . TEXT Read more.
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from Wonderland manuscript (revised)
Trendy Club (Elblag, Poland) put a hole in your skullsays Rogerthe lidis openbut where are my eyesmy balcony opensdon’t let themkeep you herei am giving youa ride homeI have not… Read more.
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current readings for week 8th May-?
Philip Whalen’s Collected Poems Kenneth Koch’s Collected Poems Kenneth Koch’s The Gold Standard Lew Welch’s Ring of Bone Read more.
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Copenhagen+bikes+strand+Christiana+wild west+paintings+poetry ++++
what a city. What time. Grzegorz Wroblewski. Paintings. Books. Louise Rosengreen (another terrific Danish poet). A journey to a place called Christiana. A freetown. A town at the end of… Read more.
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reading from my ms Smashing Time
poem plays from Smashing Time Read more.
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from Smashing Time (revised)
on the third day I walked again to the rynek of Rybnik and met a girl who told me to come to the electricity plant and I asked her about… Read more.
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a wee soundcloud reading from Godzenie
Godzenie samples Read more.
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Tomas S. Butkus
Great reading series with interviews and poetry from European poets. Steven Fowler’s Maintenant Series (if you didn’t know). This Lithuanian poet rocked it a few weeks ago at Rich Mix… Read more.
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war . . . humankind . . . progress????
r.i.p. Tim Hetherington Read more.
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playful good snuff!!!
this poet just keeps on keeping on and spurns out some seriously good language play Clark Coolidge chapbook Read more.
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smashing Time (in progress)
from smashing time Read more.
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Reading a lot of Philip Whalen and Kenneth Koch
Friday night. A week drawing to a close. Indian stomach rumbles again from the buffet. Settling in with some ginger tea and reading some plays of Kenneth Koch collected in… Read more.
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Grzegorz Wróblewski, These Extraordinary People, 100 x 100 cm (2011)
The primitive art of Grzegorz Wroblewki THESE EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE Read more.
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in and out
what will and what won’t go. Books are coming in again. All those hundreds upon hundred of books let go in North Carolina to travel the world. On the way… Read more.
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top dog!!!
best and most interesting literary journal . . perhaps . . . full stop . . . with a new look . .. and layout . . . get your… Read more.
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via the openned site
John A. and K. Koch in conversation: sense making Read more.
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cathy Wagner on blogtalk radio
books coming this week with the brown santa for 37th b-day: 1) The Sore Throat and other poems by Aaron Kunin 2) The Gold Standard a book of plays by… Read more.
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against national poetry month in America
Bernstein against national poetry month Read more.
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smashing Time (in progress)
site specific . . . environment specific . . . time specific . . . music specific . . . and so on . . . first take no revisions… Read more.
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listening to The National
quiet nostalgia . . . a bit of the old alternative sounds . . . Read more.
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revision from Primitive Pianos
might change previous manuscript title to Gypsy Moth instead of Primitive Pianos. Still thinking of titles. Poems written in Spanish Fork, Ankara, Istanbul, Trieste, Elblag, London. Revision in progress from… Read more.
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MY LATEST NY SCHOOL POETRY BOOKS
It is the 28th March. The weather, of course, is mostly overcast. But I am mostly inside so that’s OK. I spend over two hours everyday on trains, commuting to… Read more.
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prague microfest
it seems like a dream now. flying out of Trieste Italy to Prague to read at the Prague Microfest. Louis Armand. Stephen Delbos. Jason Mashak. Others. Ex-pats and poets and… Read more.
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authenticity
so here i sit on a friday afternoon i got a view so that helps and the weather has changed into spring almost summer and i am flooded with all… Read more.
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BRYGADA KRYZYS Centrala
link from friend Grzegorz Wroblewski . . . legendary Polish punk . .. waiting for a signal from “central” Read more.
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copulating and happy with NY School Poetry
I just received Joe Brainard’s I Remember in the post today. I am sure many folks have read it. I am late to the game. It is a classic of… Read more.
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back in the saddle
American surrealism . . . zachary schomburg I need to get my hands on some of his books . .. and Cathy Wagner’s My New Job and Matthew Roher’s books… Read more.
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some very interesting work in this mag from San Francisco
eleven eleven journal Read more.
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from Smashing Time (ms in progress)
S.B.’s Ghost Shit soap me sock me I got a table at the rainbow roombig ship approaching the dockI’ve got you heavy in this London sunshineWood Green March 4th 2011and… Read more.
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Department Poetry Magazine
Got my copy in the post today!!! Super super super good!!!! Ahhhh now this refreshes me big time!! Stuff is happening over here in the U.K.. I mean fresh fresh… Read more.
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from Smashing Time (ms in progress)
trace . . . . . . Read more.
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review of Godzenie
Nice review of Godzenie in Goodreads. Kept meaning to post it. Thanks Fish. Fish’s review Oct 13, 09 bookshelves: transculture Finally got a copy of this in Japan. Read it… Read more.
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DEPARTMENT 3
The UK revolution in language continues . . . . Department 3 now available. . . edited by the super duper editorial vision of Richard Barrett & Simon Howard writing… Read more.
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Books borrowed from poetry library in London
1) Many Happy Returns by Ted Berrigan 2) Train Ride by Ted Berrigan 3) Tuned Droves by Eric Baus 4) Nothing to You by Ted Berrigan Finished those fine books… Read more.
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some poems gone for a wee while
some poems in progress taken off . . . . poems sent onward to magazines who count this humble blog as already publishing them . . . . yadda yadda… Read more.
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Lunch break
I’m thinking of the human voice. Of speech. Of the subversion of communication. Of the pre-fabrication of meaning. Of Emotions language and meanings. What slips past. What infer requires of… Read more.
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back against the wall
perfect position to write. not sure if the heat from this laptop will decrease the potency of my sperm. I do not need potent sperm at this time, or perhaps… Read more.
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some Sunday reading
some fascinating answers and questions . . . not the usual fluff: Interview with Sean Bonney some interesting new translations of the poet Grzegorz Wróblewski: Grzegorz Wróblewski Read more.
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