Marcus Silcock

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Hermit Kingdom (complete. renamed Wonderland. Revised and incorporated into Moving Pictures) Resident Alien (complete and renamed Alien Measures) Never Mind the Beasts (complete. partially abandoned. partially incorporated into Wonderland) Godzenie… Read more.

Waterloo (South London) Every night you do you puton a new costume I’d thinkyou’d really like the disciplineI’m trying to workthat out he mustbe quite gooddecide what levelyr at. Sauna.… Read more.

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anxiety does not equal passion Read more.

I am, and I know this is a cliche, happiest in the NOW!!! I am afraid of making some money and getting comfortable and turning into a middle class humpty… Read more.

Some interesting mags and readings coming from or energized by Naropa and her students: Monkey Puzzle In Stereo Press Read more.

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A performance at Nightlight, in Chapel Hill NC, as part of the 919 Noise showcase. Featuring Brian, Ashley, Wyatt, Wyatt, Ryan, Cameron, and Josh. The video was shot by Justine.… Read more.

23rd Feb (English as a foreign language, intermediate, 15 students, Ealing and West London College) REPORTED SPEECH & DIRECT SPEECH The reading for today thieves attempt to steal diamonds from… Read more.

A nice interview with some discussion of soft and hard surrealism: interview with Johannes Göransson Some visceral poetry and essays: Action Magazine Read more.

captain beefheart Lick my Decals Off Baby single malt whiskey cheap quiche Bergman’s the seventh seal to end the evening Read more.

22. transmission ahead the lipsmack of my Estruscan face scrappy connections and pacehalf blind in my Napoleonic hat eating skin bits pastels lick the starched shirtoverseered feminine elbows into you… Read more.

As Beehive Magazine ends its premiere week of publication, the tendency is to look forward rather than back. However, reflection is a necessary, and often difficult, process. During the past… Read more.

shaved off the beard. drinking single malt Glenfiddich. Read more.

The very passionate poet (and manager of the fabulous West End Lane Bookshop in London) Mr. Graham gave me a free bonus book yesterday: Seeking Air by Barbara Guest. Jacket’s… Read more.

27 June 2004 moving moving moving This has been a week of moving prep. Tomorrow is the big moving day. My normal reading/writing schedule is way off track. So, hopefully… Read more.

29. Syntax is sadistic and first rate grass hardens. I’m sick of proficient regrets and ach so I’m texting my way into a pre-emptive heaven which indeed is most modern.————————————————————————————————————What… Read more.

awesome passionate chats with Steve Wiley (poet and co-organizer of Openned reading series) and Graham (manager of West End Lane Books). Picked up: 1) Seeking Air by Barbara Guest2) Loop… Read more.

the storynbc report Read more.

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young hot pics of Tom Pickard and Susan Musgrave and Bill Griffiths and Gillian Clarke and Bob Cobbing and Geraldine Monk and Wendy Mulford and many more reading at the… Read more.

An interesting sexy interview with Ron Silliman over at the best american poetry blog: Ron Silliman loses his virginity Read more.

Wonderland (South Korea) Rumi and the fire chicken, circle dancing, mosh pits, meat on a stick, baskets, gangnam escorts, window shopping for women, barber poles with a surprise inside, plastic… Read more.

It is very hard to imagine not existing. To imagine nothingness. Today is Jan 6th 2008. Two days of snow shut down London. Every time I roll up the blinds… Read more.

1. performing childhood is something elsewhere light is a lonesome hymntouching commits to memoryrhetorical proof in perpetual motionlove’s unbroken compositionapproaching the furthest roomso tonight the gaps are gracedsuffering and solacein… Read more.

12 more hours of revisions of first and last sections of Godzenie. Getting really close now . . . getting close to happy with this manuscript that has picked up… Read more.

The first section of Godzenie is called Wonderland. I have found a new way in. Revised completely. Four years ago I started working on Wonderland in Korea and now bears… Read more.

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snow snow snow in London. Buses cannot handle it. College closed so no classes to teach today. Maybe tomorrow. Nice to have free time to write but mostly bad since… Read more.

issue 15 of Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics: Poetry: Peter Riley, Mark Irwin, Maurice Manning, G.C. Waldrep, Julia Hansen, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Vona Groarke and Molly… Read more.

Some great reading this morning. Alistair Noon’s Swamp Area hit me in all the right places. Cranking it up now. Thank you Alistair and Intercapillary Editions. Read more.

cutting thick slabs of Polish Christmas hameating prawn cocktail crispshanging laundryprinting official transcript requeststrying to ignore the dust moteslooking at the cover of Roberto Bolano’s The Savage Detectivesthinking of watching… Read more.

i’m cleaning up this blogthere is too much stuffperhaps it is also time to shave my headget it nice and simplea simple headgorgeousmarvelousa new head tripcommunity community communitywhat do we… Read more.

so much writing out there. In the good book they say to sort the wheat from the not-wheat. texts are multiplying at increasing rates. I have heard the distinction between… Read more.

next month my alien card for the United States of America will expire. my travel document expires along with it. Read more.

there is a lot of noise out there. cultural production and self promotion and so on. Sometimes I want to be somebody but when I put a foot forward I… Read more.

One of my favourite presses is having a book launch this Friday. Looks like a very interesting book. Here is the announcement: Paul Griffiths: LET ME TELL YOUSo: now I… Read more.

I changed my big coat for a rain jacket. The rain jacket is slim and fits nicely on my upper body. It is a bit warmer in London. Consequently this… Read more.

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Golden Handcuffs Review Read more.

It turns out Placebo is actually part of Alien Memory Machine. It is not a new manuscript. Spent 7 hours revising Alien Memory Machine. Line breaks, forms, rearranging lines and… Read more.

Found some interesting reviews and musings online by this British poet (who lives and teaches in China): Martin Stannard 1 Martin Stannard 2 Read more.

on their way to Smithfield’s market, -2, stuck shepherds, on the green, 5 minutiafrom the common land, cats will lick u raw, bottle cutting stuck lips, some really nice people,… Read more.

Gaza and the Ghetto In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland in what it termed initially a “defensive war”. The invasion was in part justified by the Nazi desire to… Read more.

the sun came out today in London. The blue skies smelt like North Carolina. I went looking for wooden porches but found red brick houses. Liverpool made it to the… Read more.

I have almost finished reading Gabe Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook. Gabe’s book has opened up possibilities. Specifically place and history, including personal history. It is an expansive book with lots… Read more.

Sent off some of the section “Return to the city” to literary mags last night. They were revised. Took the rough drafts off the blog. I dreamed of North Carolina… Read more.

captain beefheart on itunes. London 1974. guacamole and doritos fosters 20 min and then tube to shepherds bush for NY Eve bash no table reserved Read more.

Didi Menendez, the editor of miPOesias, did a portrait of me. I dig it. Based on a younger pic. Fun stuff. I am envious of her talent and energy. I… Read more.

the poem below was written last night at The Windmill pub in Brixton, South London. It is mostly a collage of the flyer listing all the indie bands that played… Read more.

crispy beef, egg fried rice, prawn crackers, seafood with bean paste. movie: Pure. Heineken on bed. Later: Brixton, South London Read more.

Godzenie has been revised. Revisited. rethought. Things taken and things added and things shuffled. Four sections: 1) Wonderland (Seoul, South Korea) 2) Block 7A (Zory, Poland) 3) Hotel Diament (Jastrzebie,… Read more.

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Now, I have a home base in London visiting Poland is a much more enjoyable event. Just found out Godzenie did not win one of those first book contests. S… Read more.

Back to katowice, Poland tomorrow. Hanging with my girlfriend and her family for Yule time. Bringing my notebook and a few pens and see what crops up. The hardest part… Read more.

I did a collaboration with the poet Brian Howe around five years ago. Some of it was published in Tony Tost’s Faascicle magazine. Well now Scantily Clad Press has published… Read more.

The Lucifer Poetics Group is going strong. An organic grouping of artists with a healthy dose of various innovative aesthetics. some serious energy pumping out of North Carolina. Fascinating work… Read more.

anatomically correct robotically actuated advanced formula durable, ultra-realistic flesh-like elastomeric gel articulated skeleton speaks, moves, looks, feels, smells real Read more.

is being radically reworked is two serial poems “The secret of why we first took to our feet” (mythopoetics, image-centred, wisdom tradition) “As you where” (google-sculpting, found texts, sound-centred, dense,… Read more.

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I am glued, hooked, and ready to squirt. A body of work, working bodies, lower haves and have nots and so on: lowerhalf Read more.

Thanks to Sean Bonney for pointing this out on his blog. Beautiful books!!! check it: Russian Avant Garde Books Read more.

Warning: pierce non-porous skin to prevent bursting Warning: memories are scened were hot bodies meet Read more.

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A Face of Certified Holes in the cleared mindcamp the elephant is always in the room fear less than clearon a flight to Belfastto bury the dead and couldn’t find… Read more.

Some more performance art. The amazing Cris Cheek’s decade-long collaboration(s) with Kirsten Lavers at Things not worth keeping Read more.

some great sound art and poetry from the Atlanta Poetry Group Read more.

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I only looked like this for one night :-) Read more.

the new manuscript started in poland and picked up more steam in London. Now I am 50 pages in. It is about the eye. A battle between the eye and… Read more.

so what!!! anyone live for the weekend? That’s no way to live. I want out. Read more.

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One of my favourite literature magazines. YES YES YES!!! Great readings and performances. CHeCK It and be moved: Text Sound Read more.

Prodigal Drift art reshufflesout of date subjectivityhello mother an ode to milk ovelteen on a wet Tuesday post prandial nose-dive in the minced stew 2nd train to London £26£240 for… Read more.

” When you leave the city and go out in the country you’re always tempted tothink, ‘This is the real America.’ ‘These are the real Americans.’ And theyhave ‘real’ jobs:… Read more.

Gum+Cigarettes in a Litter Free Zone a shoveling between whale bones moistens the frontiers corrosive hunkle-buckle sporadic blood whimper stairs like skulls refleshed with steel universal fun-loop sifting expectations sounds… Read more.

Quit asking questions about the wine on the counter and take the potato from your pocket, peel, dice, splice. Like in a film with real milk we can’t get the… Read more.

If you are wondering about the new and exciting British and Irish poetry, this is the journal to buy: 015 Veer Journal 2 – ‘veer off’ – featuring the work… Read more.

words overheard, misheard, and remixed from an an Openned Poetry reading featuring Sean Bonney Sean Bonney Remix A clean blade with magnetic wildwood scum. Wierded weird the final host of… Read more.

Some reworked poems from Godzenie in the new Streetcake magazine. Happy for my work to be in great company. Thank you Nikki and Trini. Read more.

34. found it 2 min ago. in my beard. hm . . . here we go Read more.

still playing with this technology. DIY. rough as all hell. gotta keep trying new things. Read more.

some more great thought thinking language becoming camel again loading up before turning into lion to tear apart and then back to that mystical gooey eyed chid (thank you Nietzsche)… Read more.

Got my copy of Minor American literary journal today in the post. Damn fine work and excellent production. Looks bloody fantastic. Strong connection with some poets in North Carolina and… Read more.

Spent over 30 hours for the last two weeks finishing my three year manuscript Godzenie. Other than perhaps some small changes it is finished. Just printed and bound it with… Read more.

SUNDAYS AT THE OTO “poetry and music with the post-avant crowd for your Sunday afternoon pleasure” Third Sunday of the month, 3-5 pm, Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London… Read more.

SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR 2008 Conway Hall,Red Lion Square,London WC1R 4RL FRIDAY 24th and SATURDAY 25th OCTOBER Open 11am to 7pm, admission to bookfair and readings is free. Holborn tube. Readings… Read more.

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This is an amazing reading series. Must get someone to cover my EFL classes!!! The Next Openned night Tuesday 21st October These People will be reading at Openned on 21st… Read more.

Constellation: Alice Notley goes live today – a collaborative web event featuring 34 writers responding to individual Notley poems; video footage of Notley reading at Birkbeck last May; and the… Read more.

New Parade as Smog there is a series of predictable problemsdomains in flame all feasible desires of the soul costumeno nature plants the cars in stricken spume your supposed past… Read more.

Great show last Sunday at The Luninaire: http://www.theluminaire.co.uk/ German band called Get Well Soon. Check it: http://www.youwillgetwellsoon.com/ Read more.

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