Never Mind the Beasts

Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

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Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Silcock has made his home in such places as Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom – experiences that inform his surreal-absurd stories.

Category: dream dust

  • DREAM DUST IN FAVORITE READS OF 2025

    Thank you to Benjamin Niespodziany for including my book Dream Dust for his favorite reads of 2025. I have always loved Benjamin Niespodziany’s end of year of list of books. I am honored to be included this year. Check out the roundup over here

  • From the Wilds of Poland

  • LAUNCH OF DREAM DUST IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND

    Video of my reading for the launch of my new book, Dream Dust (Broken Sleep 2025), in Manchester. It was a terrific afternoon of surreal-absurd poetry at an incredible community art space: P3 Annihilation Eve – AD England. A heartfelt thank you to the dream team of fellow poets and friends who also read that…

  • P3 Annihilation

    “Manchester’s live literature scene has been awash with amazing visiting poets this spring and for this free afternoon of absurd surreal poetry, we are agog to see Vik Shirley, Stephen Emmerson and Marcus Silcock corralled by Tom Jenks and reading in a place packed with brilliant books.” Read the rest of the announcement over here:…

  • An Afternoon of absurd surreal poetry

    I’m reading in April as part of the launch of my new book Dream Dust (Broken Sleep Books). Reading with three fab UK poets: Stephen Emmerson, Tom Jenks, and Vik Shirley. Dream team of surreal-absurd writers. It’s in Manchester. I haven’t been north in quite some time, but loved Manchester over a decade ago as…

  • Do you wear socks with your sandals?

    It seems like so many people love the beach. Millions of humans frolicking on the beach. I am not a cocktail sippin roll in the sand kinda fella. But a beach with howling winds and nobody else around. The only thing packed is the sand. That’s a nice beach. But I moved to a beach…

  • Bruiser

    I have 3 new prose poems in Bruiser. Sheep shearing in Warrington. The Fall Guy with Hamburger Helper and Lee Majors in a trailer park in Vallejo. Goshiwon with tiny television spitting out gameshows in Seoul. Plato’s cave in Utah. Enjoy the journeys. Check out the surreal-absurd prose poems over here