Never Mind the Beasts

Category: Rides

  • Back in the day at The Horse Hospital

    Back in the day at The Horse Hospital

    Back in the day at the Horse Hospital in London versions of my poems from book Rides . . 2011 . . a different time . .

  • TRAIN TO BRIGHTON

    TRAIN TO BRIGHTON

    I used to write on trains. I wrote a whole book of train rides. It is called Rides. You can buy it here. It is maybe my favourite book. Here is a sample. This one is the train ride to Brighton. Forwards and backwards. It is about my mission.

  • LYRIKLINE

    Some of my surreal-absurd poems (from 2010-2014) have been translated into Polish and Danish  at Lyrikline, from various collections, most especially Rides (Blart Books) and Smashing Time (miPoesias).

  • My Heart is Shuffled it is intelligent it is a lot like me

    My Heart is Shuffled it is intelligent it is a lot like me

    A Sunday flashback. A wee reading, from my book Rides (2014), with cut ups and collages, straight from the heart and shuffled from the surrealist deck of cards called life.

  • REVIEW OF RIDES BY LAURA WETHERINGTON

    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/

  • from Rides

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmm3xjknAc Blart Books. Available also via Amazon.

  • ON A TRAIN TO EXETER SITTING BACKWARDS

    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.  

  • JJ Mars

    A website for JJ Mars http://jjmars.weebly.com/

  • Mahu: celebrating Blart books – Marcus Slease

    READING FROM RIDES (BLART BOOKS 2014) AT HARDY TREE GALLERY NEAR KINGS CROSS IN LONDON.RIDES WAS CUT UP SLASH WRITTEN ON TRAINS FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS ALL AROUND THE U.K.AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON IF YOU FANCYhttp://www.amazon.com/Rides-Marcus-Slease/dp/1291923381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433789534&sr=8-1&keywords=rides+marcus+slease

  • hardy tree gallery reading

    FANTASTIC NIGHT OF READINGS WITH BLART PRESS AND HOME BAKED BOOKS AT HARDY TREE GALLERY FOR MAHU!!! SUNDAY 7TH JUNE 2015

  • Small Press Publishing

    A selection of some of my books from small presses in last couple of years. Sometimes it is good to stop and take a glance back. Thanks Blazevox, Poor Claudia, Deadwood Press, Blart Books, miPOeasias, and Deathless Press.

  • RIDES LAUNCH

    AT XING THE LINE. LONDON. 8TH OCTOBER 2014. A bit of flarf poetry. Of course part of the larger nomadic surrealist project as well. RIDES IS AVAILABLE FROM BLART BOOKS AND AMAZON: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rides-Marcus-Slease/dp/1291923381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412958522&sr=8-1&keywords=rides+marcus+slease  

  • MY SPECIAL MISSION

    MY SPECIAL MISSION. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. (from Rides. Blart Books 2014) http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/marcus-slease/rides/paperback/product-21702070.html //player.vimeo.com/video/103632337 MY SPECIAL MISSION from marcus slease on Vimeo.

  • DARK AMBIENT

    A DARK AMBIENT VERSION OF RIDES. AVAILABLE NOW FROM BLART BOOKS

  • THE CRANIUM IS A SPACE TRAVELER’S HELMET

    READING FROM NEW BOOK RIDES IN MY FLAT IN EAST LONDON DOCKLANDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmm3xjknAc “There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate” There are mashups with train rides forwards and backwards all around the U.K. Rides is part of my nomadic surrealist project. AVAILABLE OVER HERE: RIDES  …

  • RIDES

    My new book is just out! YIPPPIEEE!! Started this in 2008 when I first came to London. Picked it up again in 2012 after coming back from living in Poland and Turkey. It was poems written at tube stops around London. Then poems written on the circle line in London. Finally it became poems written…

  • MY BOOK RIDES (IN THE TRADITION OF TED BERRIGAN)

    “I began writing train poems on the London tube in 2008-2009. I sat there scribbling into notebooks as the train went from one stop to the next.”  I’m talkin about train poems & my process for writing Rides on H_ngm_n magazine today: http://h-ngm-n.tumblr.com/post/86997117895/this-poem-this-monster-marcus-slease It is partly inspired by Ted Berrigan’s Train Rides (picture below). Rides is…

  • romantic pornography

    These poems are train rides around the U.K. They also deal with love & romantic pornography. They are from my manuscript in progress called Rides.   https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/from-my-heart-is-shuffled-it  

  • three from Radioactive Moat

    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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