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Author: Marcus Silcock
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Last Christmas in Katowice, Poland I met a girl named Megi Szu and Lola in a Polish pub called Presja. They are Polish but they used English names. Or half English. Szu = shoe Megi = Maggie —————————— maggie shoe Lola = Lola We sat on an old couch with plastic flapping in the wind.…
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last time I was in Katowice it was Christmas. I sat in a little room with a giant snowman and lots of Russian dolls and wrote a flash fiction about Polish beavers. It was a story about my impressions of Poland and globalization. The Poles can do Gangnam style like no other. The story is…
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In old stomping grounds of Katowice, Poland after 10 days in Spain. Valencia, Barcelona, Alicante. I will never visit Alicante again. It was a wasteland of thousands upon thousands of tourists, bright lights, consuming frenzy, over priced bottles of water. Everyone looking for a quick Euro. Lots of ripping off. Ripping off might be ok…
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Mir Taqi Mir: Selected PoetrybyMir Taqi Mir THE MUGHAL EMPIRE IN INDIA (1526-1857) In the 1500’s the Mughals under their leader Babur made their way into India, expanding under Akbar the Great, and built one of the most remarkable empires in history before being suceeded by the rule of the British Empire. They…
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My close friend and excellent poet and artist and writer Grzegorz Wroblewksi has a brand new book out. and it ROCKS!! Big TIME! NY School poetry meets Kafka meets Polish poetry (bruLion etc.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brulion Get it get it get it!! http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781938890000/default.aspx Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda. “Grim, glancingly beautiful, always necessary.”—Joshua…
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http://horsenihilist.com/main.html
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story cut up from William Burroughs cut up novel Soft Machine and lyrics of Mark E Smith. Images cut from various films and made into stills and cartoons. Narrative added to provide some cohesion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ym-Q0sPW8c story published in Sprung Formal http://issuu.com/sprungformal/docs/lilsprung2013
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ANY EVER (Trailer), Ryan Trecartin PS1 from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.
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Marcus Slease and SJ Fowler doing the jump. Hardy Tree Gallery final night of performances.
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http://upliterature.com/i-was-a-visionary-for-boudicca-by-penny-goring/
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from We are Warriors (novella of flash fictions in progress): GERALD GOES ON A BUSHWALK Gerald wasn’t sure what to do now that the Spring Breakers were gone. A heavy slanted rain was lashing his forehead so he ducked under the cover of some bushes. He sat cross legged and began thinking about various ways…
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https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/tin-tins-blooming-snatch Enemies Project at Hardy Tree Gallery. London. Words: marcus slease. Music: Ben Morris.
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Ben Morris & Marcus Slease have realised the aberrant underbelly of the gentle metropolis dirge in an acoustamatic tin tin of the city, bringing the offbeat poetics and grinding sonic beauty of London into three dimensions, falling off a wall. Part of The Enemies Project. Hardy Tree Gallery. London. These are now on the wall…
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CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE Lucy and her guru sitting in a tree. K-i-ss-ing. First comes love then comes marriage then comes a baby in a baby carriage. That’s the song that was going through Lucy’s mind as she looking into the eyes of Sleepy Eyes. She wanted to look away but she couldn’t. She was locked…
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A very rough draft of some work for my ongoing nomadic travel novel: The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. It will undergo massive collaging and editing later. MAPS Russians to the right; Indians to the left. I go with the Indians. I follow the sign for Hind Street Community Centre. Outside my…
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CHAPTER SEVENTY – What is this prince? (asked Sleepy Eyes) – He’s the one I am supposed to marry. (said Lucy) – Is that what you want? – I don’t know. (said Lucy looking directly into the eyes of Sleepy Eyes) – I want you do something for me Lucy. – OK. – I want…
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CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR Don’t let the sun go down on your grievance. Don’t let the sun go down on your grievance. The goths were singing a little ditty together. It was to bring them all together. The Easter Bunny had collected the words from a boy named Daniel Johnston. He bought this Mr. Johnston’s tape…
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CHAPTER TWO The players were hired by the king. They were made to take an oath not to swear in any of their plays. They crossed their hearts. They also promised to watch out for a certain man. They were given a picture. Her father was not stupid. The picture might not be useful. People…
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(from Novella in progress: We Are Warriors) http://pressboardpress.com/2013/07/15/two-flash-fictions-spring-breakers-ceremonial-garb-by-marcus-slease/
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CHAPER ONE The mirror was steamed up so she wiped it with her hand. She saw someone in the mirror. The person in the mirror was a man. A man with a beard. A long gray beard. She grabbed a green hood and covered her head. She tied a scarf around her face and went…
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Here is a nice mini lecture by Tim Atkins on British Innovative Poetry in the 1990s. A small group. But at least something.
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Enemies: Voice art – Dylan Nyoukis + Ben Morris + SJ Fowler
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Just got a link from my close friend Grzegorz Wroblewski. They got some killer poets over at Big Bridge. Indian, Tibetan, Mexican, Russian poets in translation. YIPPIE: Modern Russia Poetry:http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/twentyfirstcenturyrussianpoetry/twenty-first-century-russian-poetry-contents.html#Anthology of Young Mexico poets:http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/mexicopoetryanthology/mexico-poetry-anthology-contents.html#Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry:http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/indianpoetryanthology/indian-poetry-anthology-contents.htmland something extraordinany, Anthology of Tibetan Poets:http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/anthologyoftibetanpoets/anthology-of-tibetan-poets-contents.html
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outside The Hardy Tree. London. Near Kings Cross. 7th July 2013
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biodegradable priceless jelly poems
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crazy ass saintly video
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Enemies at the Hardy Tree gallery!!! FUN NIGHT LAST NIGHT!!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Johnston
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Coming soon from Zephyr Press Grzegorz Wroblewski’s Kopenhaga translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda http://www.zephyrpress.org/new.php#kopenhaga CAN’T WAIT . . . “Wróblewski is the true poetic chronicler of our 21st century diaspora in all its absurdities and anxieties … Kopenhaga is a journey to the end of the night that always makes a U-turn in…
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http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/591971 got a wee interview in the summer issue of PoetsArtists. Cool mag!
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Making Chapbook Acousmatic Tin Tin Updated about an hour ago PublicFriendsFriends except acquaintancesOnly meCustomClose FriendseveryoneSee all lists…poets 13poets 12poets 3poets 11poets 9poets 8poets 7poets 5poets 16poets 15poets 14poets 2poets 6poets 10poets 4poets 1Hurricane High School (Utah)Rancho High SchoolRichmond, The American International University in LondonMETUMETUBilkent UniversityRichmond, The American International University in LondonLondon, United Kingdom AreaWestern Washington UniversityThe…
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My girlfriend Ewa is making chapbooks for The Enemies Project. A collaboration with sound artist and painter Ben Morris. This is stage one mock up. Playing with stamps and watercolurs. There will be a green lizard stamp on cover. Cover is special Indian paper from east London (brick lane). Event is at Hardy Tree Gallery.…
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Excited for this next week. Working with the sound and outsider artist Ben Morris. YEAH!!
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nomadic travel . . james joyce . . transplanted Irishness . . Americaness. . . and so on . . . http://everestonline.tumblr.com/post/53433193690/marcus-slease-interview
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http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=3281
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Grzegorz Wroblewski. Translated well. It is an excellent translation. One of the best poets writing today. For sure!! Grab a copy of A Marzipan Factory. Marjorie Perloff also has nice things to say about Wroblewki’s poetry. Read the review over here: http://galatearesurrection20.blogspot.dk/2013/05/a-marzipan-factory-new-and-selected.html
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gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous book. Thank you Deathless Press. It’s a postmodern Polish fairy tale. Part one. A nomadic surrealism. A few still for sale here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/130911578/the-house-of-zabka-by-marcus-slease?ref=v1_other_1
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Matthew Dickman at Centre for Creative Collaboration 17th May 2013. London. Organised by Ahren Warner. Matthew flung free collector item chapbooks into the crowd at the end. Matthew is a wild man. A very wild man. I say hell yeah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEoHdWCPGY
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London. Centre for Creative Collaboration. 17th May 2013.
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reading with Matthew Dickman tomorrow at Centre for Creative Collaboration. Super excited. Love that fella. And his poetry too. Will be good night methinks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34E0t1tBN-w
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http://muumuuhouse.com/tl.poetry.html
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Electronic Voice Phenomena is a new experimental literature, performance and music show that feeds on the corpse of paranormal pseudo-science. UK tour coming up: http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/on-tour/
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Marcus Slease reading Jeff Hilson from _In The Assarts_ NY School poetry meets the London school of medieval ass arts. Kraftwerk. Buster Keaton. Ted Berrigan. Francis Picabia & the sheriff of Nottingham. Jimmy “great charming girl” Schuyler. The ladies in waiting have left their nuts in a medieval thicket. Jeff Hilson pokes it right in…
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funny raw sexy dark and twisty the amazing stories of xTx . . whole book in pdf available here . . NOBODY TRUSTS A BLACK MAGICIAN: http://www.notimetosayit.com/pdf.html
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My first book of fiction now available from Deathless Press. It’s a Polish postmodern fairy tale. “The House of Zabka” by Marcus Slease A Polish folk tale meets Kurt Vonnegut’s surreal science fiction. A visionary, oracular original fairy tale that follows a butcher’s daughter to the deepest, darkest, strangest depths of the forest. A playful…
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I AM A WARRIOR . . GO CHIPS . . FOR THE POOR . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Urawlof0oPo
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I’m up at DIGITAL ROOTS READING SERIES . . video reading Joanne Kyger and my mythological story about Polish beavers. It’s called I LOVE BEAVERS: http://digitalrootsrs.com/
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DO YOU LIKE BEAVERS? DO YOU LIKE POLAND? I HAVE A FLASH FICTION IN LIL’ SPRUNG FORMAL/ISSUE 8. IT IS SHORT. IT IS ABOUT BEAVERS, POLAND, WALNUT FIRE, GANGNAM STYLE, AND OTHER POLISH TRADITIONS . . FAB ISSUE. HAPPY TO BE IN THERE . . Featuring work by: Ben Fama, Abby Carr, Sarah Jean Alexander,…
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it is all of us in this spooky life . . THE OUTSIDER ART OF DAVID KELLY http://erkembode.com/2013/04/30/camarade-mimih-part-1-enemies-of-the-south/
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LEMURICKS. MARCUS SLEASE AND JEFF HILSON. BRISTOL POETRY FESTIVAL. ARNOLFINI GALLERY. A CAMARADE EVENT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr9AP_KpU-s
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http://embed.ted.com/talks/reggie_watts_disorients_you_in_the_most_entertaining_way.html
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VOGUE FABRICS. LONDON. DALSTON. FEELINGS READING SERIES. READING FROM MU (SO) DREAM (WINDOW) (POOR CLAUDIA 2013) http://www.poorclaudia.org/print_slease.php THANK YOU SOPHIE ROBINSON!!
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Here’s one called “The Pink Slip.” There’s a boy named Jack and another one they call Jill and a Pole called Zofia and a Bavarian named Frank and a man from Utah called Andy. They go to Regensburg in Bavaria. They drink lots of beer. They say cock and pussy. They meet a Bavarian wild…
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A Philip Whalen Mala by the terrific Peter Jaeger. A Canadian poet in the heart of London! It is based on this poem, by Zen poet Joanne Kyger. And in his handsa long wooden string of Buddhist Rosary beads, which he keepsmoving. I ask him which mantra he is doing—but he tells mein Zen, you…
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History of a future from Olivier Wyart on Vimeo. by Renee Reynolds, Shanghai
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Punk scene. Hongdae, South Korea early 2006. It was a fun scene. Not as commercialised as London. Felt innocent. More innocent. Or maybe I was innocent. I wanna get innocent again.Book to accompany this:Mu (so) Dream (Window):http://www.poorclaudia.org/print_slease.php
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by Alexandra Naughton http://www.metazen.ca/?p=12584
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by ana carrete http://idonothavepenisenvy.com/SMALLFRIESNOTBIG-ANACARRETE.pdf
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I READ SOME JOANNE KYGER FOR RADIO SHOW IN LONDON. I HAD A NICE CHAT WITH STEVE WASSERMAN OVER HERE ON THIS FAB PODCAST CALLED READ ME SOMETHING YOU LOVE THANK YOU STEVE WASSERMAN I HEART JOANNE KYGER READING AND CONVERSATION OVER HERE: http://readmesomethingyoulove.com/?p=1384
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“all glazed in sunlight like a finger painting of beet juice and bird feathers.” Dani Sandal over at New Orleans Review: http://www.neworleansreview.org/dani-sandal/
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Thanks SJ Fowler and David Kelly: http://erkembode.com/2013/04/07/for-marcus-slease/ (image: David Kelly)
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Tom Jenks and Chris Mccabe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElDk44meVVU
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My reading at The Other Room: http://otherroom.org/videos/or-37-nikolai-duffy-linda-black-marcus-slease-videos/
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the latest story by the Italian underground of bizarro Crugi Smear: http://londonunpublishing.wordpress.com/
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Om Shanti . . I have no fuckin clue . . superb interview with Melissa Broder . . and parents too . . http://cuttyspot.tumblr.com/post/45653827228/melissa-broder-video-interview-response
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Three poems in Radioactive Moat. Part of my ongoing manuscript Rides. It used to be called The Circle Line (for the poems written while riding the underground trains in London). But now Rides has poems written on trains all around the U.K. A nomadic surrealism written on trains. http://www.radioactivemoat.com/marcus-slease.html
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Leather wombs, payments of lamb shanks, still births . . Dani Sandal plus Kathy Acker plus William Burroughs plus plus plus House Call: 1936 Beneath naked bulb hung from twisted cord, a black-bagged surgeon stoops to stroke porch dog dozing on bloodied bone. Inside his leather womb, steel instruments, useless as dried teats of this…
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“Those who are truly contemporary,” Giorgio Agamben writes, “who truly belong to their time,are those who neither perfectly coincide with it nor adjust themselves to its demands. … Toperceive, in the darkness of the present, this light that strives to reach us but cannot—this is whatit means to be contemporary.”
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Been thinking about ego. About an ego hiding behind an ego. About how the folks at the various Zen centers of America have said that people who practice a lot of Zen have STRONGER PERSONALITY not less via meditation. And thinking of Philip Whalen who certainly had a lot of personality. A lot of ump.…
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http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush_shimoda.php The latest Crush from Poor Claudia: “TWOyears ago Brandon Shimoda spent a winter sequestered in a backwoods, Maine cabin with the poet Dot Devota, reading first-hand accounts by survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Composed on notebook paper taken from an elementary school,The Grave on the Wall transfuses the language of witness account into the poetic process, running genocide…
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Europe poisoned by balloons./ It is a virus that spreads / And makes us animals. / It resembles the galaxy. read the poem over here at Housefire Books: http://housefirebooks.com/la-manana-en-que-dios-abandonado-su-trono-poetry-luna-miguel/
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refreshing as a London sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfCFVsJeW38&feature=em-subs_digest
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EQUALS THIS: http://www.chapbook-genius.com/ THANK YOU JOSEPH YOUNG!
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A huge thanks to Matthew Dickman (poetry editor of Tin House) for kind words about Mu (Dream) So (Window): http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/22915/what-were-reading-8.html
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VERY VERY HAPPY TO BE IN NAP WITH SUCH AMAZING AWESOME STELLAR ROCKIN FINE WRITERS. THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT FOP ME . .. THIS IS TO BE ALIVE . . I WANT TO BE ALIVE . . . . SCRATCH AND SNIFF . . IT SMELLS OOOOOHHH SO GOOD . . NAP . .…
Never Mind the Beasts 