Marcus Silcock
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5 minute morning poem
Private Devotion (with special thanks to Anselm Berrigan) a lanky man with custard was recalled to life it took both cities in their underwear without a spare taxi to take… Read more.
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6.5 minute morning poem
Stage and Scream Quit asking questions about the wine on the counter and take the potato from your pocket, peel, dice, splice. We are stuck between stage and scream. Like… Read more.
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Ezra Pound
zra Pound | Late TateFriday, 3 October18.30 – 22.00Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RGadmission free http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pound/ To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ezra Pound’s arrival in London in 1908, nine performers… Read more.
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SNOB
SNOBBISH SNOBBISHLY SNOBBISHNESS SNOBBISM SNOBBY SNOBLING SNOBOCRACY SNO-CAT SNODSNOFF SNOG … SNOW LILY SNOW LINE SNOW MIST SNOW MOUSE, SNOW MUSHROOM SNOW ORCHID there is real. it is all real.… Read more.
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deft Pollock
Poorly paid Laborers Break Up Ships for Salvage The deft seduction of art keeps us transfixed. There’s always some visual pleasure to engage us. A painter’s eye for color and… Read more.
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wish i had the money to do a phd here !!!!!
check it: Contemporary Poetics Research Centre Read more.
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time to write
i have been finding time to write from 4-5PM before teaching my evening classes. When I am supposed to be preparing for classes. Between the first and second half of… Read more.
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What happened to those lovely trousers (rough draft)
a monster haunts uswith cut-resistant ballistic pads carefully cut and sewn with curves in mind bright yellow peppers in the morning courtyard old tyre caked against shed and cooling trouserson… Read more.
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take two (revision from yesterday)
Alien fruits For magnesium light I lifted my pillow with gold teeth into the mythical moist night, co-mingled with minions and unpeeled onions, all my vigor squeezed into a single… Read more.
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New poem from yesterday (rough draft)
Recycled from Today identity is a serious personal issueself-imposed deadlinesit shuts on its own darlingi’m sure you’re gonna be somebody, soondo you understand what else there is?stop anti-aging, stop messing… Read more.
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new books :-)
Andrew Duncan’s Origins of the undergroundTom Atkins FolkloreTom Atkins HoraceSoft Targets (featuring Brian Howe purchased from Bookarts Bookshop in East London)Maggie O’Sullivan’s Body of Work Mairead Byrne’s Talk Poetry spent… Read more.
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fantastic Sunday reading series
I went to a fantastic reading yesterday afternoon. Sundays at the Oto (Japanese for sound) with TIM ATKINS, ISNAJ DUI + SOPHIE ROBINSON. Tim Atkins was absolutely nothing short of… Read more.
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Dylan Harris
Elit in Europe Read more.
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new poem in Past Simple magazine
Love the clean look and always excellent painting as cover of Jim Goar’s Past Simple. Check out my poem and short reading here: Auspicious Wanderings Thank you Jim Goar Read more.
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Nero
In the techno-creep, broken glass, you knowwhat reason tormentsfallen face in the surfperpendicular foot on my memorywhat you sellingoh comeo, oh obsidiantoken sanity, it behooves you to impound yr authenticity,… Read more.
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interesting blog stop
it’s happening Robert Sheppard Read more.
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The Praxis of Memory
performing childhood is something else where light is a lonesome hymntouching commits to memory rhetorical proof in perpetual motion and love’s unbroken compositionapproaching the furthest moon salvation is among the… Read more.
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back in the saddle
first week in new flat in west London. paid the deposit. Just hooked up wireless internet a few hours ago. I start a new job on Monday teaching part time… Read more.
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DYLAN HARRIS
Some interesting use of short poetry and photography from Dylan Harris. Check out ALL HANDS Read more.
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writing again
reloaded os x on my mac. simplified. writing again. doing remixes of readings i’ve attended so far in London. I don’t remember their words and my words. Words. whose words?????… Read more.
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reading remixed
Scott Thurston (Openned Reading, London, The Foundery, July 17th 2008) “take cover from my artificial intelligence” “we cannot justify our deserts” “shapeless static boundaries” “our current past-life on a disused… Read more.
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readings remix
Nate Tarn (Swedenborg House London June 17th 2008) “how to keep in favour with the sky in another pieced together country”‘the eardrum inbeasted to savour even more so, now”“my father… Read more.
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readings remix
Lee Harwood London 17th June 2008 “theory of colours and walking skeletons” “the usual desire for the glue monster”“in small rooms we sat around the fire”“I know what you are… Read more.
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great news
My brother is awake. At first he couldn’t speak and he put his hand on his heart and pointed to my mum. now he is using words . . .… Read more.
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brother in a coma
my little brother Spencer was in a very bad car crash three days ago in utah. he is in a coma. brain swollen. collapsed lung. machines. I can’t really focus… Read more.
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It has begun
It is really happening. or seems to. My first feed for over three years occurred last night in east london at the Foundery: Sascha Akhtar Sean Bonney Frances Kruk Scott… Read more.
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what to do with a baby . . .
A lot of tube time. Over three hours. I’ve seen some of the same people but we are not supposed to look at each other. When I blow my nose… Read more.
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Soundeye poetry festival in Cork
I must attend this event next year!!! report by Alison Read more.
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NEW SUNDAY POEM (DON’T KNOW WHERE IT WILL GO)
Prodigal Drift Lapid maze-fault: something calls my name, tomotoe on the table I wish you could pick me up operaticallyhot/cold with critical speculation. I’ve met gravityat every turn and in… Read more.
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revision of the last saturday afternoon poem many moons ago
COFFEE HALL sex drop and damp dreamsin coffee hallbefore a Mormonbaptism there was silent chatter and I was borderline skit zowhile star wars figures melted on the light bulb This… Read more.
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fantastic poetry website
My friend and fellow poet Virgil Renfroe gave me this link to a very interesting poetry and sound art website. The soundstuff is really really interesting. Check it out: Dean… Read more.
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feet
got a big room for the month of August. Half a foot on the ground. So my third move in London coming up in two weeks. Then in September I… Read more.
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monatic nomadic nymphoids
so maybe my feet will come back. maybe i can work in marketing for this language school and then create a mental space for my writing. I think other writers… Read more.
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Brick Lane
went to brick lane in london yesterday. it is an amazing place. my favourite place in london so far. lots of interesting galleries. it is where the new shit happens.… Read more.
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turkish neighborhood
It is pouring rain in London right now. Typical English weather i guess. I live in a Turkish neighborhood. I got my haircut the other day at a Turkish barber… Read more.
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saturday afternoon poem
Portadown cum round againsex drop and damp dreamsin council housingsilent chatter borderline skit zofigures melting on lightbulbs I’m painting a portrait with the pelvis as a disappearing point and masturbation… Read more.
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New flat
So I moved into a new flat in North London (near Manor House) last monday. Lost money by moving out of the other flat before the end of the month… Read more.
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belfast coming to an end
so leave in a few hours for a plane back to London. Belfast was great. Fantastic indie rock clubs. The area around Queens University is really nice. Cool vintage clothing… Read more.
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Onions
scene speak: NewportPagnell: green green greenand old village pubs, countryfood: Yorkshire pudding and roastand carrots: loved and lostand loved it all maybe not, although, I don’t think so, my lapsedtravel… Read more.
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written quickly at Belfast City Airport
The Goose at The Goose across from Wood Green Station£1.50 a pint, Slovakians and Bulgerians and Polish and North Londoners and a man in the corner climbing a ladderof tongues… Read more.
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selling
what does it mean to sell out? it entails something about authenticity which is a big bag of bones. but being authentic is always a question in motion. like individuality… Read more.
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in wood green, north london today belfast tomorrow berlin . . . ???
in new room. old place. a few cool bulgarians. now my mum is in belfast. flying back to belfast tomorrow. it is crazy globe trotting. come back to london in… Read more.
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London tomorrow
I traveled from Milton Keynes to London all last week. After one busy extremely stressful week I have a job and a place to live. I will take the train… Read more.
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newport pagnell (U.K.)
birds everywhere. at least twelve new songs. clock ticking. slugs nestled into mud puddles. Lush, in short. i have applied to a mad amount of jobs, it is the system,… Read more.
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one hour till departure
hey we go . . . one hour . . . two trains . . . plane . . .london well, Milton Keynes for a while . . . interview… Read more.
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some reworkings from The Secret of Why . . .
dipping feet into dead holes: polski pani polski pani zoo wee su zesh gee oh wee ma me pling plang ol la ba na na the eye socket does not… Read more.
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from the secret of why we first took to our feet (rough)
cruel spring is on the way and my savage old identity is in the making, three years of foreign lands, my action is mental,don’t jump outta airplanes ‘cept in my… Read more.
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from notebook
Throngs of people in the centre of katowice scuttling down the street. Legs don’t work right around here. My energies are dispersed and can’t keep ahead of the curve. Nothing… Read more.
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hunker down
three more hard days of teaching in Poland. Then a few days in krakow and then London. Trying to stay calm. No idea what kind of job I can get… Read more.
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in portadown, N. Ireland
it was a very hard, sad and beautiful funeral. it was nice to see my mum for a little while. It had been almost six years since I had seen… Read more.
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my grandmother has passed away
My Granny helped raise me when I was little. I will miss her terribly. I never got to say goodbye. from my uncle Stan: Georgina Phyllis Wilson (Gibson)Monday 21st April… Read more.
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friday poem (from the secret of why we first took to our feet)
In the daily minutiae picking up, picking out, packing up, freedom is a force multiplier still increasing in importance, where you going with your lazy eye in central Europe rollerblading… Read more.
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friday poem (no edits)
From that moment on the body refused its movement and there was the feeling of everything left to do. What am I going to show you now? A protoclysmic eye?… Read more.
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Coming to America!!!!
Looks like it is back to America in May or June. It has been over five years since I have seen my family (mum dad and three brothers and three… Read more.
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expanded friday poem
The Secret of Why We First Took to Our Feet the brain weaves a strange kind of music and our bodiesseem unable to forgetthe memory of what it feels liketo… Read more.
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friday poem
The Secret of Why We First Took to Our Feet the brain weaves a strange kind of music and our bodiesseem unable to forgetthe memory of what it feels liketo… Read more.
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pleasantries
it is pleasant to breathe after strangulation it is pleasant to clink a wishbottle against yr yellowing teeth it is pleasant to tie boredom to the bed and whip the… Read more.
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new version of shame (saturday)
Kultura It’s a milkshake dream. Chocolate chunks in a pool of milk. What will prevail upon the tongue when human time is disappearing from the universe? And so the large… Read more.
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friday revision of ‘Shame"
Shame Ladies and gentlemen, better wake up and hijack these images. Don’t wake up too old for experience. You’re beginning to believe in the past detached from the body. I… Read more.
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one of my favourite classes
Saturday morning Pre-CAE class. Great students. Read more.
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Wednesday poem (from my notebook no edits)
Shame I am full of shame. All my work is a forgery. I don’t thinkI’ve said one important thingin my entire life I’m back in a body crumbling within the… Read more.
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friday poem (no edits one go)
We’ve talked a little about the horsepenis and change and luck and the way things come down. There are cartoon voices and a jangle of keys at the station. The… Read more.
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friday is my day!!!
Most Fridays only contain three or four hours of teaching and then the afternoon and evening are free. God it is nice. Here is a revision of an earlier poem.… Read more.
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mixtape with the Lucifer Poetics Group
it is announcements like these that make me wish I were still in North Carolina with the Lucifer Poetics folk: Announcing MIXTAPE (the Reading Series) #4 Mark you calendars now!… Read more.
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Third Version of A Simple Thing
There’s a he and a she separated by slender wood. The graver engraves and the wood isbitten into. Who carves and who is carved really doesn’t matter. Who bites and… Read more.
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second version of A Simple Thing
There’s a he and a she separated by slender wood. The graver engraves and the wood isbitten into. Who carves and who is carved really doesn’t matter. Who bites and… Read more.
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A Simple Thing
There’s a he and a she separated by slender wood: engraved and bitten into.One broken flip-flop clops along the wooden floor.Each footfall sinksinto sand. A final whistle cutsthe air as… Read more.
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more from new manuscript (no edits)
Scene Speak Katowice centre has the highest percentage of limping people per capita. The table in this café keeps tipping. Hands won’t get warm. Ice cobra of the mind. Caution… Read more.
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a great video by Ashley Howe and Brian Howe
Maybe you had wooden fingers in a past life Read more.
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very rough . . .
Bloodlump bit my tongue on some thinned-outPolish bread and it’s a bloodlumpagainst the invertebratemovements of the tongue when with contempt the exposure of dust in the daylight: a fertile stasis… Read more.
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glasses repaired
have to tilt a little to the right but new glasses are back with a new lens . . . Read more.
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from Prodigal Drift
Neighbors 1 no eternity without mythical speechtotem mud paints the brainclay codingsseven to nine stiches suture the minda paradise of blemishesmusic drawn like conceptsbetween meaningsvisions in the mudpit Neighbors 2… Read more.
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from Jeremy Prynne
In fact, there are only two things in the universe which are simple, and one of them is the universe taken as a whole; and the other is its language,… Read more.
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Some translation of Świetlicki (by Zofia Malgrab)
The third half SHIT HAPPENS, that’s howthe writing on men’s toilet wall ends.This is the worst –to walk with such hungerof at least minimal glow – to findonly this, the… Read more.
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memory clouds ( a beginning)
Memory Clouds . . . the most benign symptom (Roland Barthes) memory clouds, as the say, feedon mountains, endlesshover that dwells, or dwelledelsewhere, and yeahbehold a punctured tyre, nightfeet acrossswollen… Read more.
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new glasses kaput
Went to a club last Thursday with my friend Andrew. My friend is 30 and they wanted his id. He was visiting Poland and did not bring his id to… Read more.
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fragments for a new poem
Detergents force out dirt and foam makes something out of nothing. Foam is the spirituality of luxury. The emperor’s new clothes are a reflexive lyric of the bodysoul. The washing… Read more.
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Gender roles
I have been thinking about old patterns. In marriage therapy towards the end of my marriage I realised I needed to be more assertive. To tell my wife no sometimes.… Read more.
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Blind Boy Grows Feathers
I did not teach today. It helped. I cleared a space for thinking and writing and reading. I am taking an 8 hour train to Gdansk tomorrow morning. I will… Read more.
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more quick edits from new manuscript
Auspicious Wanderings Auspicious Wanderings a lemmon seed floats in my milkauspicious wedding rings fall into drainpipesshadows stick to the branchescigarette butts smell like rotten peanuts Irish flem leaves my throat… Read more.
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The Praxis of Memory
performing childhood is something elsewhere light is a lonesome hymntouching commits to memoryrhetorical proof in perpetual motionlove’s unbroken compositionapproaching the furthest moonsalvation among the borders of civilisationso tonight the gaps… Read more.
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new issue of onedit
new issue of onedit is out today. It features complete works by Miles ChampionKhaled HakimHarry GilonisStephen RodeferEleni Sikelianos It is at: onedit Read more.
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mud mud mud
Katowice is the city of mud. The Polish just throw a shit load of dirt on snow maybe to save money on salt and when it melts it mixes with… Read more.
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Richmond Fontaine
http://www.youtube.com/p/D1597C2CAB3870FD Read more.
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new year’s eve 2007
still recovering. zofia got me a new shirt. dig it. Read more.
