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Travel writing while living in North Carolina, Utah, South Korea, Poland, Turkey, Italy, London, and Madrid.
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Cut random images from a random film on my hard drive. The film turned out to be THX 1138 by George Lucas. I forwarded the movie nine times with the slidebar. I created a film still from each forward. Nine frames. Then flipped through the Book of Frank by CA Conrad. Copied seven random lines. Flipped…
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(A dream. Katowice, Poland. 25th August 2013)Marcus Slease
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In ING bank Katowice. Hoping to poo soon in Poland. There is a lot of pork in Poland . Some chicken. Very little beef. Sometimes fish. I am not really a meat man. I am fish man. A fish meat man. Ewa is trying to close her account from two years ago. They take over…
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Homeless as a fly you lactated on my tongue – — – ——— a pillow by night and a sack by day now my petals begin to fall (from Mu (so) Dream (window). Written while living in South Korea, 2006. Published by Poor Claudia in 2012: http://www.poorclaudia.org/print_slease.php
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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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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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Marcus Slease and SJ Fowler doing the jump. Hardy Tree Gallery final night of performances.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 . .…
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YOU GAVE ME YOUR ADDERALL + fiction by RL Goldberg http://housefirebooks.com/you-gave-me-your-adderall-fiction-rl-goldberg/
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my chapbook based on experiences living in South Korea in 2006. Mu Dream So Window. Available from Poor Claudia. Limited edition of 150. Order here: http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php
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if you like visuals and other such things visit my other blog The House of Zabka www.marcusslease.tumblr.com
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Hey Marcus Slease – We just finished putting yr book together. When you rub yr hand against it, it whispers. — Drew Scott Swenhaugen limited run of 150 copies scratchy purple cover a bit of creative translation of Basho there is a gay balloon flower song there are pocket rubbings near Buddhist temples there is a Korean…
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“A whiskey breath man does not like your English so you speak in Ponglish. Ponglish is sexy. When you speak Ponglish you must hide your erection or squeeze your legs to prevent the juice from running down your legs. You may excuse yourself to the side of the building and smoke smoke smoke away your…
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Grzegorz Wroblewki poems and paintings on Wojtek Wilczyk blog: http://www.hiperrealizm.blogspot.dk/2013/01/w-hodzie-krotkim-pobytom.html (painting: Grzegorz Wroblewski: Deep Blue Adventures)
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http://atlantapoetsgroup.blogspot.co.uk/
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the new Gesture is finally here :) :) :) here are the contributors: M.g. Martin, Steve Roggenbuck, Daniel Alexander, Anhvu Buchanan, Susan Calvillo, Kati Mertz, Kelly Schirmann, Michael Inscoe, Robert Vaughan,Yume Kim, Mat Cochran (lead singer of the band Coma Cinema), Marcus Slease (…) (DOWNLOAD PDF): http://thegorillapress.com/sites/default/files/gesture_4_.pdf (FLASH) http://thegorillapress.com/sites/default/files/gesture_4_.swf(FIND IT ON GORILLAPRESS WEBSITE) http://thegorillapress.com/node/7
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MY SHORT STORY “THE ARRANGEMENT” NOW OVER AT MONKEYBICYCLE. BORA WINDS. OPERA. A RED HOODED GIRL BIRD FROM LJUBLJANA. DOGGIE PARK PICK UPS. A SEXY PIPE SMOKING BUTCHER FROM TRIESTE: http://monkeybicycle.net/the-arrangement/
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but mostly he carried an astronaut he carried an astronaut like greasy bacon over a rump roast like an ox that plows and plows and plows that sexes his cherries and sends him up with moon humps and sucker punches a sucker for a suckling diddling his axis with her helmet and her little white…
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up at Banango Street: http://banangostreet.com/issue3/marcus-slease/
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http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/who-gets-you-wet/
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http://husmw5.tumblr.com/marcus_slease happy to be in great company . . Socrates Adams-Florou Grace Millard Ananta Prayitno Jean Hui Ng Beach Sloth Paige Gresty Marcus Slease Kevin Pinner Blare Coughlin Livia Franchini Wern Luk Christopher Scarborough Dianna Dragonetti Michael O’Brien Michael Hessel-Mial Kelly Schirmann Jmar Atienza Amelia Gillis Robert Schofield Michael Scarborough check out issue five .…
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or bodies made of smokeor a giant made of meat hearts ***** I want a floor like this laminated and shining everything in its right place even when it’s not ***** we are bathed in green lightsthe first star is still waitingto arriveto Katowice ***** I’m sitting in a little wooden roomtyping thisin a room…
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My body ballooned in the bathtub. My scrotum was a magical sea creature. I watched it bob before annointing myself with oils. Then I ate a plate of bigos. No two plates. Then I entered the house of zabka and said pa prush sha do va LM na bel ski. That means two packs of cigarettes. The lady…
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If you are in London come on out. Will be reading some fucked up elfish mayan house of Zabka bizarro in honour of Mr. Burroughs. Tues Jan 15th 2013. Parasol Unit is the place: http://parasol-unit.org/on-beat
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http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/julia-tillinghast-akalin-how-the-strip-club/ She has spent a number of years, on and off, living in Istanbul, Turkey, and is Co-Translator of Dirty August, a selected poems of the experimental 20th-century Turkish poet Edip Cansever. This mades me very curious. I loved living in Turkey and exploring experimental Turkish poetry. Must find this Dirty August!!!
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how to waste your lunch hour by Jennifer Omega http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11662
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If you are in London, check this reading out tomorrow. Jeff Hilson rocks my world. Amy De’Ath is cool too. The sad dj is cool. Lots of cool shit. Thursday 20:00 An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.Poetry:Amy De’AthMarianne MorrisSophie MayerJeff HilsonSamantha Walton!more tbc!Film:Liz RosenfeldSad Disco:DJ Dr Kemp Vogue Fabrics 66 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB…
Never Mind the Beasts 