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Category: NOMADIC SURREALIST PUNK
Travel writing while living in North Carolina, Utah, South Korea, Poland, Turkey, Italy, London, and Madrid.
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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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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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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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https://player.vimeo.com/video/141842682 SIN CITIES from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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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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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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DOG WALKING IN TRIESTE WITH JAMES JOYCE ITALIAN PIZZA AND THE BORA. “THE LONGEST WAY ROUND IS THE SHORTEST WAY HOME” https://vimeo.com/136311567
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Matthew Dickman in Tin House magazine on exciting times in contemporary British poetry: http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/25564/the-poetry-across-the-pond.html
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HORSES ARE REALLY SOMETHING ELSE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQPvdHsAow&feature=youtu.be
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Another excerpt from my recently completed novel Never Mind the Beasts. This time as a child in Portadown, N. Ireland at the height of the troubles. PTSD, the bomb, satanic rituals, graveyards, granny’s, lucid dreaming, witches. https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/no-surrender
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Terrific poem by Bobby Parker over at Morning Star. Gives me hope. Generally. And for British poetry. http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-da46-Bobby-Parker-Edible-Ghosts#.VcL8XOhVg2i
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https://vimeo.com/134944360 Homeless beach dwellers. Summer 2014. Almeria, Spain.
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WRITTEN IN GENOA. PART OF NEW MANUSCRIPT. CHECK IT OUT HERE: https://vimeo.com/134836919
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Terrific exhibit and month of performances at Hardy Tree Gallery. Happy to be involved. Communities. Art. Poetry. Yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=175&v=LAK8oXyN2_M
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POEM FROM NEW MANUSCRIPT: MY HEART SWIMS IN BLOOD
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WINNER.
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Great night of readings in celebration of the work of Tom Raworth. For Mahu at Hardy Tree Gallery. London 9th June 2015. Thank you SJ Fowler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frW3NoBCBP0
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IN THE GIANT PARK OF KATOWICE IT IS DIFFICULT TO BREATHE WITHOUT INHALING A GIANT MOTH!https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/mothcity (image: moth city comic published by Flying Whities)
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Brief review of DMT. Over here at Sandpaper Review. Written by one of my performance characters: JJ Mars. It is nomadic surrealism par excellence! https://sandpaperreview.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/dmt-review-by-jj-mars/
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“it was called shoeburyness it was very English the signs said don’t walk on beach you might blow up or die we didn’t die”
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POEM FOR THURSDAY 30 APRIL 2015. THE SUN. THE CLOUDS. THE ZOLOFT LAMICTAL PROZAC COCKTAIL. THEY COME. THEY GO.
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New work written in The Old Blue Last. Shoreditch, East London Also The Book Club in Shoreditch. My new writing spots. The blue light special is bad for your dreams . .
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Super HAPPY to have poems in the new issue of Wu-Wei Fashion Mag. Really terrific issue with fab poets and rad design! Hope restored in poetry (on and off the internet). http://wuweifashion.com/
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Off to Russell Square to warm up for performance at the Horse Hospital tonight. Reading some poems from my Bathtub poems. Bathtubs 62-69. Connecting in various ways to the spirit of Max Kurzweil’s Woman in a Yellow Dress. Come check it out. The Horse Hospital is one of those rare places that still exist in…
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MORE BATHTUB POEMS FROM POLAND. THIS IS THE NEW BATHTUB 25. IT IS THE NEW AND IMPROVED BATHTUB 25. IT IS START OVER. IT IS IS NEW YEARS DAY 2015.
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Really sad news on the death of Tomaž Šalamun yesterday. A short piece in memorial up on 3am magazine now http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/tomazsalamun1941-2014/
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NEW ISSUE OF GLITTERMOB. GOT SOME LEGS< ONIONSHONKY TONKS> IN THE NEW ISSUE . . CHECK IT: http://www.glittermobmag.com/marcus-slease.html
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//player.vimeo.com/video/115163175 BATHTUB 11 from marcus slease on Vimeo. MORE STORIES FROM THE BATHTUB IN POLAND . .
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A tribute to my brother Aaron Slease it is very hard to not have him around. We were very close. We are still close.
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Some nomadic surrealism using an overlay of Allen Ginsberg as guide. It is animal bodies at sunrise and sunset. Some Diane di Prima. Also psychedelics. Please stop sharpening your knives! //player.vimeo.com/video/114598604 Seville Sunset 3 and Seville Sunset 5 from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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Happy to be a part of this!!!
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From my manuscript New Foam. Over at Right Hand Pointing: http://www.righthandpointing.net/#!80-marcus-slease/c1svv
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NEW WRITING OVER AT theNewerYork from my manuscript NEW FOAM. KATOWICE POSTCARDS: http://theneweryork.com/katowice-postcards-marcus-slease/ WILD BOARS, Katowice, Słonecznik, uber Russians, samalot, tenniscoat records, the sun, the lack of sun, happiness in yellow.
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https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/swisswav I sold Burpie seeds & accidental death on the phones
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I got TOOTSIE ROLLS in the supplemental issue of Lighthouse Magazine. TOOTSIE ROLLS are world war two. I got them from Mormon missionaries. Read TOOTSIE ROLLS and other poems over here for free: http://www.gatehousepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Lighthouse-6-Autumn-2014-Online-Supplement.pdf the full meal of Lighthouse mag (with more poems) coming soon. A launch in South London too! Mighty good. Thanks Angus…
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short piece about bombs bombs bombs. And not wanting to be sad anymore. From new revised manuscript written in Poland.
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https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/alfred-starr-hamilton-poemswav
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This duo from Madrid makes me happy. Like The Raincoats. I love The Raincoats!
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New poems written while in Andalucia, Spain.
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Innovative British poetry from Tim Atkins and Jeff Hilson. Terrific. They make me believe poetry is alright again! a great reading in London as part of the Auld Enemies project by SJ Fowler.
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GENTLEMEN(POETRY, MUSIC, FILM COLLABORATION FOR UPTIGHT)DIRECTOR: Graeme MaguireASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Sarah MaguirePOETRY: Marcus SleaseSOUNDS: Annie Gardiner of Hysterical InjurySTARRING: Rick Hambleton, Natalie Brown, Mo, Jamie LindsayTHANKS TO: The Cube, Scubaboy Inc, Floating Harbour Studios, Geneva Stopcheck it out://player.vimeo.com/video/100253149 GENTLEMEN – Short Film from Graeme Maguire on Vimeo.
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hangin in old moorish streets of Grenada. Reading Lorca in NY while I am in Grenada. Bones on fire in 40 degree heat but can´t type worth a damn on ancient devices. Nuts with white wine on the lower east side of Grenada. 4.20am. This was glowing in the sky.
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SJ Fowler organised it all. WOW! What a night!! And lots more poets reading on the night . . . check ’em out over at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om1Qq2Ekhhk&index=1&list=UUH-fLGyt8YZrtNctaU1OauQ
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Here is Philip Terry. An member back in the day of Oulipo. He puts Tim’s Atkin’s poems from Petrarch through a music box. It is very interesting. Tim Atkin’s Petrarch is available from Crater Press over here: http://www.craterpress.co.uk/ Crater 27: June 2014. Tim Atkins, Complete Petrarch. Atkins Collected Petrarch / Petrarch Collected Atkins. All of…
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Holly makes her own spin on Tim Atkin’s spin on Petrarch. Oh yeah! and many more readings over here:
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The awesome Jeff Hilson reading from Tim Atkin’s Petrarch:
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Got some surrealist/fabulist prose poems written in Poland 2008 and 2012 in the new issue of Likewise Folio . Check it out at :http://likewisefolio.org/poet/marcus-slease
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https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/raph-hawkins-find-the-black
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BIG BALLS OF HAPPY ENERGY AND DEVASTATOR BEER. SPANISH FORK UTAH. DOCKLANDS EAST LONDON. UVF CHILDHOOD. PORTADOWN. EXPANDING UNIVERSE. NOTHINGNESS.
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SOME OF MY POEMS FROM MANUSCRIPT TRAIN RIDES. POEMS WRITTEN GOING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS ON TRAINS IN THE U.K. INSPIRED IN PART BY TED BERRIGAN’S TRAIN RIDES. CHECK IT OUT IN THE NEW H_NGM_N ISSUE 16. http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-sixteen/marcus-slease.html
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NEW POEM THINKING ABOUT HRABAL AND TIME LIVING IN POLAND. WRITTEN WED 7TH MAY 2014.
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MY POEM SCHOOL OF FISH IS OVER AT SPORK. YIPPPIEEE . . . http://sporkpress.com/
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NEW POEMS IN WHICH ISSUE 5. A HEALTHY SPRINGING FROM OTHERWISE OVERALL STALE BRITISH POETRY (OR STALE MAGAZINES AND PRESSES OF BRITISH POETRY) GOT A POEM ABOUT STRING AND THE UNIVERSE AND MORMON MISSION MEMORIES OF TYING COMPANION TO BED POST TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL INTERFERING WITH BODY LUST SENSATIONS ETC. CHECK IT OUT HERE. THANK…
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KARAMAN, TURKEY. 2010 https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/half-way-house
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SUPER SUPER HAPPY!! IT IS A GOOD SATURDAY IN EAST LONDON. GOT MY COPY OF ATLAS REVIEW 3. AMONG ABSOLUTELY AMAZING COMPANY. BEST MAG I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG LONG TIME!!! SO MANY GREAT ARTISTS AND POETS!! THANK YOU ATLAS REVIEW. YOU WILL BE MY TUBE READING FOR THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO. AND…
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Footsie Index #5 Richard BarrettMarcus SleaseRichard will be launching his new book ‘Free’ which is published by Blart Books. Tuesday 15th April 2014 STARTS @ 7PM Footsie Index #5 is at Artslav http://www.artslav.com/ Artslav is a restored Victorian public toilet located under the centre of Kennington Cross just by The Doghouse Pub. 180 Kennington LaneLondonSE11 4UZ Get there…
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BY JACK SPICER. BACK IN PRINT.AND GORGEOUS OF COURSE! I LOVE POOR CLAUDIA. SO HAPPY TO HAVE MY BOOK WITH THIS TERRIFIC PUBLISHER. ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVS http://www.poorclaudia.org/books/the-holy-grail/
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America (after Ginsberg) America I am putting my pursy lips to the wheel America go to bed dream new dream America none of this means anything America I’ve got your booty in my laundry bag America my potatoes are puffy, cloudy, sexy America I have a queer head a queer shoulder a queer toe a…
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a reading of Mu (dream) So (Window) on soundcloud. Seoul, South Korea 2006: https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/mu-dream-so-window
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poetry “is in the margins, the fray, and the common places too. Some poets may attempt to harness and use the “PoBiz” for personal or professional gain, but it is at their own expense that they fail to grasp that poetry’s power extends far beyond one’s career or notions of fame. Poetry has the potential…
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thanks for reading, glancing, clicking, stumbling upon etc etc etc. itr’s a noisy world on the internet. and irl life too. but even more on the internet. the internet is the noisiest place on the planet.
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christmas eve morning breakfast in poland: homemade pickled herring, lots of beautiful onions, soft warm bread, a coffee. a snowman with twenty five blinking lights.
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love this!!
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this makes me happy
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Reading from new manuscript ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION at Poet’s As Saints. Hardy Tree Gallery. Erkembode Exhibit. Nov 23rd 2013. photos by Alexander Kell
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Marcus Slease and John Estes. Over here. John Ashbery and Eileen Myles are in the conversation. Many others too. Canton, Ohio and East London. Check it out over here at Likestarlings: http://www.likestarlings.com/poems/marcus-slease-john-estes/#1
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http://erkembode.com/2013/11/23/poems-for-saints-that-are-poets-as-saints/ THANK YOU SAINT ERKEMBODE!
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Saturday 23rd November, 7.30pm – Poets as Saints hardy tree gallery near kings cross London Event specific poetry by avant-garde poets bouncing around the subject of saints. Poets/saints on board so far are Tim Atkins, SJ Fowler, Robert Kiely, Sarah Kelly, David Berridge and Marcus Slease.
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with SJ Fowler and Holly Pester. part of the enemies project. FAB FAB FAB COLLABORATION ALL THE WAY IN MEXICO CITY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNO5qmGPOQ
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vine.co/v/hpFmUm9M07h thanks Erkembode
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Mass collab happenin in London today. Gonna be reading some of my train poems. Forwards and backwards. Collab with Claire Potter. Yeah. Go London. Go Rich Mix. Go UK Poets! It’s gonna explode! http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/camarade-poetry-festival/ Camarade IV – October 26th 2013 2pm to 10pm at the Rich Mix arts centre The Camarade poetry festival is…
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LOVE THIS GUYS WORK! YES! WOLFMAN LIBRARIAN!
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directed by JOSEPHINE DECKER
Never Mind the Beasts 