about
Author: Marcus Silcock
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indie-pop, post-punk, new wave and sixties music. Scared to Dance. London. Wee interview over at Swimmer’s Club: https://www.all-new.swimmersclub.co.uk/scared-to-dance/
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Nice review of Wróblewski’s Zero Visibility over at Asymptote Literary Journal. Another planet indeed. http://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2017/09/14/in-review-grzegorz-wroblewskis-zero-visibility/
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TERRIFIC POEMS BY DREW GARDNER OVER AT EMPTY MIRROR: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/poems-by-drew-gardner.html
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The all new swimmer’s club. Now over at the classic indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe:
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Lots of goodies over here: https://switchboard.dostoyevskywannabe.com/
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FASCINATING 12 MIN DOCUMENTARY FROM FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA “Less a confessional documentary than a mixtape that samples a copious personal archive, “This is Yates” pan-n-scans a wide track of time, running from the near-present back beyond pre-pubescence to home movies of time before birth.” Available over here from the classic indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe: https://switchboard.dostoyevskywannabe.com/kiddiepunk-this-is-yates/
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MY NEW BOOK, PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT, IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE RAD DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE. ALMOST CHEAP AS CHIPS . . . BUY IT HERE: https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/original/play_yr_kardz_right HERE ARE SOME BLURBS “Marcus Slease’s gentle & generous engagements with the ephemera of almost-everyday life, coupled with a variant of bill bissett’s Lunarian English, and a sensuous, curious,…
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Seven of my current loves over at Swimmer’s Club. It is hard to choose seven. They are only seven. But maybe a good seven. There is the Czech nomadic surrealism of Lukas Tomin, the Canadian surrealism of Guy Maddin. Sun Araw, The Seventh Seal, Leonora Carrington, Chika Sagawa. So many greats. What a life! Check…
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Excerpt from my novel in progress The Autobiography of Don Whiskers A hybrid novel (in the form of an immigrant memoir, prose poetry, and interlocking surreal flash fictions). Some influences include Richard Brautigan, Miranda July, Lukas Tomin, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, and Leonora Carrington (plus more). This except is called THE HOUSE OF…
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GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI’S “BLUE PUEBLO” OVER AT EMPTY MIRROR. RIMBAUDIAN NIGHTMARISH FALL OF MAN LOVE RECOVERY DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/grzegorz-wroblewski-blue-pueblo.html
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AN INTERVIEW WITH POET MARCUS SLEASE IN CELEBRATION OF HIS UPCOMING BOOK FROM DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE OVER AT ENTROPY https://entropymag.org/mushee-piez-fried-pineappulz-an-interview-with-poet-marcus-slease/
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https://www.swimmersclub.co.uk/treadingwater/syntax_error FROM GIRL AT END COMING SOON FROM RICHARD BRAMMER AND DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE EXPERIMENT https://www.swimmersclub.co.uk/treadingwater/syntax_error
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Sneaky peek slash preview of some poems from Play Yr Kardz Right coming soon from the fabulous indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Over at Swimmer’s Club: https://www.swimmersclub.co.uk/treadingwater/play_yr_kardz_right
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My review of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s book of poems, Zero Visibility, is up at the terrific Empty Mirror: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/book-review-life-is-unbearable-grzegorz-wroblewskis-zero-visibility.html
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From my novel The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. Finally hope to complete it after seven years by the end of this summer. Maybe. The novel is nomadic life writing plus a kind of surrealism and absurdism. A new kind of travel writing.
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I answered some questions about Why I Write over at Slow Culture. A series that continues what George Orwell started over 80 years ago. A wee promo for my upcoming book Play Yr Kardz Right from Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Very shot minimalist answers about nomadic travel, surrealism, psychedelics etc. Trying to define yourself is like to…
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A wee performance at Desperate Literature Bookshop. Madrid. 14th April 2017.
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A very interesting essay by Piotr Gwiazda on translating Grzegorz Wróblewski’s latest book into English, Zero Visibility Check it out over here: http://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/grzegorz-wroblewski-zero-visibility/
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I am performing with London based poet Chris Gutkind at Desperate Literature bookshop in Madrid. April 14th. Tonight two poets (one local, one not) in a wham bam double thankya mam. Chris Gutkind mostly started out in Montreal and has lived in London for many years. He worked as a librarian in universities during most…
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THREE OF MY POEMS TODAY ON DAILY GRAMMA. THERE IS A NICE SWAN. http://gramma.press/daily/marcus-slease-three-poems/
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My Shamanistic mix track from conversations with soothsayer birds and others . .
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https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/saint-tom Setting: A government housing estate called Coffee Hall in Milton Keynes, UK. Characters: David Bowie, Neil Diamond, the Milton Keynes Bowl, hot air balloon, a mars bar,a rocket ship, an American mall, a playground, a 10 year old boy. Plot: a ten year old boy has just found out he is immigrating to the…
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Currently finishing up my manuscript Never Mind the Beasts. Never Mind the Beasts is a book of saints with many settings, including: Lisbon, London, Milton Keynes, Hurricane, Portadown, Katowice, Faro, and Texas. It is a great mashup bursting with flavours, including: instructional essays, alien immigrant memoirs, erotic stories, vignettes, political fables, monologues, and travelogues. Never…
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https://player.vimeo.com/video/195170235google translate from JJMars on Vimeo.
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A LITTLE STORY FROM MADRID. FROM MY ALMOST FINISHED MANUSCRIPT THE GREEN MONK. THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF BAPTISMS. IT BEGINS WITH A CLAY TEAPOT FOR THE NOSE.
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HOW IS YOUR ZIPPER? https://player.vimeo.com/video/192234342zippers from JJMars on Vimeo.
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It is a saint day in East Madrid. The narrator learns Go Fish and King Alfred and peasants and burning cakes. The barbarians are at the gate. They learn to live simply. A true story. Is it Buddhism? Maybe! from my manuscript in progress Play Yr Kardz Right. https://player.vimeo.com/video/187478828 THE CAKES from JJMars on Vimeo.…
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https://vimeo.com/186089921 The true story of a search for home and the attempt to alleviate or ameliorate a mostly musty existence with showers of flowers and living kind of close to nature but not with swans. https://player.vimeo.com/video/186089921Tiny House from JJMars on Vimeo.
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POSTMAN PAT from my new book in progress: Alien Memory Machine (transmissions from Iberia) https://player.vimeo.com/video/185125441POSTMAN PAT from JJMars on Vimeo.
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My new phone is coming today. A motorola. Not elegant. Simple. But should get the job done. I mean, I should be able to use Tuenti app and make calls and texts (if needed). I hardly ever text or call, only Ewa, and Chris G in the past. Part hermit. I am not sure when…
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Final day in London. Last minute charity shop runs and bag weight reshufflings. Then chill in North London with Chris Gutkind. North London is where London began for me over 7 years ago. By noon tomorrow we will be residents of Madrid. Airb&b for a while while hunting for flat to rent. Have to start…
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My short reading at Rich Mix, East London last night. Part of the Nightime Economy exhibition: https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/the-night-time-economy-exhibition-marcus-slease-1 A collaborative exhibition of photography and poetry exploring the often fractious energy and environment of Newport, Wales’ nightclubs and pubs. Conceived and created in close collaboration between photographer Kate Mercer and poet & artist SJ Fowler, this exhibition…
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The writer/performer Zarina Zabrisky’s Euromix: Drunk with Fire. Brexit protest in London. Over Here: https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/euromix-drunk-with-fire-d2dbefc84818#.w24mxkdqf
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Part of the reading from last night at Xing the Line. Poems and stories from ongoing manuscript The Green Monk. Influenced by Mormonism, Lydia Davis, Ivor Cutler, James Tate, and others. https://player.vimeo.com/video/171918072 Xing the Line Farewell Reading Part Two from JJMars on Vimeo.
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I read at Xing the Line last night. My last reading before leaving to live in Madrid. On the eve of the big vote. Maybe I will not be gone long. Who knows. I hope I am still an EU citizen after today. Then again I have been meaning to change my passport for an…
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“At the lunch table there is a new man. He has been to Dubai and it is very hot. But worse than that is Vegas he says. He gets very excited about Vegas. You have to step into the casinos to cool off he says. I don’t know how to gamble he says. Did you…
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The best review of my work ever. Such a generous and insightful review of Rides. Thank you Laura Wetherington. https://laurawetherington.com/2016/06/17/marcus-sleases-rides/
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DO YOU PREFER SUCKING A SOUL OR HAVING YOUR SOUL SUCKED . . . . https://player.vimeo.com/video/169079845GREAT EXPECTATIONS from JJMars on Vimeo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmm3xjknAc Blart Books. Available also via Amazon.
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A nice review of nomadic life and poetry over at: http://www.biuroliterackie.pl/biblioteka/cykle/hello-tiny-tird-brain/ HELLO TINY BIRD BRAIN!! Thank you Grzegorz Wroblewski!!!!
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Saints/Mimih/Migration Compendium.Featuring art, poetry and prose by Marcus Slease, @TjaKm, Pascal O’Loughlin, Lucy Jane Hilton, Stuart Westerby, Irish Poetry Shop, Erkembode, Catherine Carncross, Geoffrey Buoys & Sian Williams.Edited by David Kelly-Mancaux.Translucent.Initial limited run of #22.Expected arrival. June 2016.ISBN: 978-0957349636 £7 INCLUDING POSTAGE http://erkembode.weebly.com/shop.html
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https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/the-force FROM ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION. THIS ONE IS ABOUT BENDY BANANA KICKS.AND STARS WARS. IT TAKES PLACE IN COFFEE HALL. A GOVERNMENT HOUSING ESTATE IN MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND. IN THE 80’S.
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Two of my poems over at Potluck Magazine. Good journeys. http://www.potluckmag.com/may-2016/2016/5/5/two-poems
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Some hybrid fast fiction prose poems from immigrant and travel memoir: Play Yr Kardz Right. In new issue of magazine Past Simple 11: www.pastsimple.org/ps11.MSlease.html
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Happy to have some new work from my poetry memoir Play Yr Kardz Right in the new Past Simple. Terrific issue with Native American poetry and innovative poetry from Arizona and the UK!!! http://www.pastsimple.org/
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Recorded a wee poem . . back in another lifetime in my hick days in Hurricane Utah . . first loves and sherbets and walt whitman and deserts and rabbits and cricks and first kiss no tongue .. . HERE IS THE RECORDING: https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/somewhere-in-time
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Eileen Myles gives me hope. Not necessarily for money for poetry. Although I did get paid £50 for my poems in Tin House and that felt somehow a little validating. Even more than the money was having poems in Tin House and the generosity of poet friends. Eileen Myles, like many I would imagine, gives…
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A poem about David Cameron, Shoplifting at Whole Foods, Hyde Park, Jackals, KGB, Pussy Riot, The Raincoats, Hush Puppy, a homeless hamster, and a bathtub. From my book nomadic surrealist book Rides. Translated into Polish for Polish magazine Elewator. Thanks Adam Zdrodowski.
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Did a reading and short talk at Austrian Cultural Forum in London yesterday. The spirit of the Vienna Secessionists through Max Kurzweil’s paintings Woman in a Yellow Dress and Despair. Imagination and freedom!! The only war is the war against imagination. Also allowing for vulnerability in art. No real connection (in art or life) without…
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I was super happy to have two poems in the faith issue of Tin House Magazine. They were later published in my book The Green Monk (Boiler House Press). From my poem “Sacred Spring” in the faith issue of Tin House. A lost baby. Miscarriage. Travel. The great ships come and go. From my poem…
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New poem by JJ Mars (my side project) over at FOR EVERY YEAR. Thanks Crispin Best. http://www.foreveryyear.eu/2016/03/1806-co-jj-mars.html (Painting by Oliver Hibert)
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Flashback Friday to 2013 performance at Hardy Tree Gallery in London with sound artist Ben Morris. Great two weeks of performances and exhibitions, including the artist known as Erkembode. Mixing the arts is very good. Specialisation is boring. Visual art, sound art, language art. “Ben Morris & Marcus Slease realised the aberrant underbelly of the…
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https://player.vimeo.com/video/155019113The X Files from JJMars on Vimeo.
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Fantastico Wroblewski poems over at The Fishhouse. Translated and read by Piotr Gwiazda. The best of Polish poetry!!! A nomadic surrealism. http://www.fishousepoems.org/artist/grzegorz-wroblewski/
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https://vimeo.com/153599023
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https://vimeo.com/152676814
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I am performing with Tim Atkins this Saturday. Tim Atkins is innovative British poetry at its very best. Scrap that. He is more than British innovative poetry. Buddhist dharma poetry. Camarade 61 – January Saturday 16th – 7pm – Free Entry – Apiary Studios: 460 Hackney Rd, E2 9EG http://www.theenemiesproject.com/camarade http://www.apiarystudios.org/2015/12/the-enemies-project-presents-camarade-61/ with: Lavinia Singer &…
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https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/the-man-who-fell-to-earth
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A website for JJ Mars http://jjmars.weebly.com/
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A POEM INSPIRED BY JOY . THE MOVIE.
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Made uh soundtrack to old cartoon of psychosexual tenshunz the sung is kalld chuck chuck cheez it iz about the sedukshun uv of the text https://vimeo.com/150527959
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bewtee bewtee wat iz bewtee frumpee bewtee hellish bewtee kold wet englush bewtee kold bewtee we want to git wet & warm nakid sun kist beech boobs & bums hairee & smooth pecks such uh bewtee ful mess since we ate the appul http://jjmars24.tumblr.com/post/135434389152/sexee-peepul-with-gold-playtid-i-fownz-bewtee
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What an advenchur sumhow we ended up with whiskee shots & mur beer fur qik stop pee brake on sum east lundun wet syde street & at the veree end veree strong 11% brew dog we wandurd around olde street lookin fur wild west dancin but no wilde west dancin the brew dog wuz not…
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https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/from-play-yr-kardz-right
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A wee reading for poems at Fog Machine
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My first published poems as JJ Mars. From manuscript called Play Yr Kardz Right. Published over at Fog Machine. http://fogmachine.life/blog/2015/12/1/seven-by-jj-mars
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The British have voted for more bombing. Minimalist drone shows, stick figures, military stations, hoof prints on the coffee table, skeleton trees, a manual for legs, and a warning note near the great mustard wheel pulled by a large horse. Elation is elevation via the visual cortex. Another flash fiction/wee story from book in progress.…
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My new vixen short short. It takes place in the heart room at a party and on the porch. Blood is a warning sign. The heart of a dummy cannot be destroyed.https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/let-the-right-one-in
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Some awesome translations of Polish poet Grzegorz Wroblewski in Jacket 2. In conversation with perhaps the most powerful Polish poet of the 20th century. Tadeusz Różewicz. A special issue about Polish poetry after Rozewicz.http://jacket2.org/polish-poetry-after-rozewicz Wroblewski’s poems are translated by Piotr Gwiazda.http://jacket2.org/grzegorz-wroblewski-and-rozewiczThe five poems are over here:http://jacket2.org/poems/five-poems-wroblewski
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HOW TO RECONCILE WITH THE GREAT GULLET OF BEAUTY? THIS PAINTING IS FULL OF THE DREAM POP OF SURREALISM. (art by kurtis-rykovich)
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EXACTLY!!!! FREAKING MEASUREMENTS ARE EVERYWHERE (EDUCATION, THE ARTS, CORPORATE CULTURE!!) HOLY SHIT!! WE NEED MORE HOLY SHIT!!
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COLLAGE ART BY BEN STAINTON IN MY WRITING ROOM. IT IS VERY GOOD!!
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Have a poem in Best British Poetry 2015. Inspired by Alan Watts and the earth. It’s called “The Underground.” Originally published in Lighthouse magazine. Thanks Emily Berry.
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Check out Handsewn Bear Press mimih-zines made for This Is Renaissance, October 2015, in Leeds, UK. The zine is £1.50 http://www.erkembode.com/shop.html Featuring mimih art & poetry from: Marcus SleaseLucy Jane Hilton@tJaKmErkembodePascal O’Loughlin
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SEEDZ SEEDZ SEEDZ https://player.vimeo.com/video/143366053 THE BIRDS from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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A part of a Turkish travel memoir over at Keyhole Magazine. It’s from another lifetime ago. It’s part fiction part non fiction like everything. It’s partly about sexual freedom sexual repression and religion. It’s called NO ROOM IN THE INN. Check it out over here: http://www.keyholepress.com/fiction/no-room-in-the-inn-by-marcus-slease/
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this poem takes place in canary woof. in the docklands of london. i live in the cheap seats but i can see canary woof. it is the new financial centre of London. it is from my manuscript currently being re-collaged and re-layered called ANUTHER KIND OF MISHYUN
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My poem “Bathtub 18” published in Juked magazine October 2015. (art by Marie Jonsson-Harrison) https://player.vimeo.com/video/141847565 bathtub 18 from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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https://player.vimeo.com/video/141842682 SIN CITIES from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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I am happy to have a poem in Juked magazine. How we bounce from one thing to another. It is hard to choose between being beautiful or funny. The poem has many good couplets. There are very elastic. You can throw them at the wall. You can read the poem over here: http://www.juked.com/2015/10/marcus-slease-bathtub-18.asp
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I have long admired the trifle. It is the crown jewel of English sweets. I often remember it at Christmas. I felt a bit of nostalgia for the trifle when I lived in America. My memories are often connected with Milton Keynes since that’s where we moved when we “immigrated” from Northern Ireland. I put…
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Reading from my book Rides (Blart Books) with other fab Blart poets at the Free Verse Poetry Fair this weekend in London. The Evening DO! 6PM at The Square Pig and Pen. Excited to hit the book fair during the day. Especially Ugly Duckling. They got the goods!
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Looking forward to seeing this fantastic Grzegorz Wroblewski and Wojciech Wilczyk exhibition in Krakow. Photography and poetry.16.10.2015 – 17.01.2016MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART KRAKOW (photograph: Wojciech Wilczyk)“The exhibition is pivoted on a fusion of poetry and photography. In 2013, Grzegorz Wróblewski wrote his poem Blue Pueblo. Inspired by it, Wojciech Wilczyk took a series of photographs of Amager,…
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How did Jesus Vikings get to America? Find out over here. Are dream guns really sexual? Find out over here. Why was the Viking hanging on a rubber tree? Find out over here. How did the first American Vikings become the Big Lebowski? Find out over here. And more . . http://www.powderkegmagazine.com/marcus-slease/
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A short narrative poem about vibration therapy. It takes place in Katowice, Poland. The poem was published in the fab journal The Mackinac: themackinacmagazine.com/marcus-slease.html
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http://www.themackinacmagazine.com/marcus-slease.html Some poems in super new issue of the Mackinac. Super happy to be in there. Two poems from Katowice, Poland and one from London, England.
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Count me in! http://hyperallergic.com/94782/why-i-am-a-member-of-the-ron-padgett-fan-club/
Never Mind the Beasts 