NOMADIC SURREALIST PUNK
Travel writing while living in North Carolina, Utah, South Korea, Poland, Turkey, Italy, London, and Madrid.
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THE BOOK OF FRANK POETRY COMIC
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… Read more
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GOOD MORNING KATOWICE
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… Read more
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Homeless as a fly
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 Read more
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from Valencia to Katowice
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… Read more
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NORTHERN CREAM VIDEO
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 Read more
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Hardy Tree Gallery Final Night
Marcus Slease and SJ Fowler doing the jump. Hardy Tree Gallery final night of performances. Read more
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tins tins blooming snatch
https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/tin-tins-blooming-snatch Enemies Project at Hardy Tree Gallery. London. Words: marcus slease. Music: Ben Morris. Read more
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A Gentle Metropolis Dirge
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… Read more
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watermelon island (chapter seventy three)
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… Read more
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watermelon island chapter seventy
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… Read more
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watermelon island chapter sixty four
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… Read more
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Watermelon Island chapters 2-4
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… Read more
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Two Flash Fictions (Spring Breakers, Ceremonial Garb) by Marcus Slease
(from Novella in progress: We Are Warriors) http://pressboardpress.com/2013/07/15/two-flash-fictions-spring-breakers-ceremonial-garb-by-marcus-slease/ Read more
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from Watermelon Island
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… Read more
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Enemies: poetic mini-lectures – Tim Atkins: English poetry in the 90s
Here is a nice mini lecture by Tim Atkins on British Innovative Poetry in the 1990s. A small group. But at least something. Read more
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marcus slease and ben morris- hardy tree gallery opening night
outside The Hardy Tree. London. Near Kings Cross. 7th July 2013 Read more
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Enemies at the Hardy Tree gallery – Opening night: SJ Fowler
biodegradable priceless jelly poems Read more
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Opening night: Ben Morris & Marcus Slease
Enemies at the Hardy Tree gallery!!! FUN NIGHT LAST NIGHT!!! Read more
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Acousmatic tin tin for The Enemies Project
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… Read more
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acousmatic tin tin
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.… Read more
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THE ENEMIES PROJECT
Excited for this next week. Working with the sound and outsider artist Ben Morris. YEAH!! Read more
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interview over at Everest Magazine
nomadic travel . . james joyce . . transplanted Irishness . . Americaness. . . and so on . . . http://everestonline.tumblr.com/post/53433193690/marcus-slease-interview Read more
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Matthew Dickman reading at Centre for Creative Collaboration in London
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 Read more
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Matthew Dickman
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 Read more
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Electronic Voice Phenomena
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/ Read more
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THE HOUSE OF ZABKA
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… Read more
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Chips for the Poor – I Am A Warrior – Busker’s Bus – Tramlines 2012
I AM A WARRIOR . . GO CHIPS . . FOR THE POOR . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Urawlof0oPo Read more
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DIGITAL ROOTS READING SERIES
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/ Read more
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SPRUNG FORMAL 8
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,… Read more
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THE OUTSIDER ART OF DAVID KELLY
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/ Read more
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Reggie Watts
http://embed.ted.com/talks/reggie_watts_disorients_you_in_the_most_entertaining_way.html Read more
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BAVARIAN FAIRY TALES
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… Read more
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Punk Scene in Seoul
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 Read more
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Eating Bulgogi memories are not the porno a poem for Marcus Slease on the occasion of his 39th birthday
Thanks SJ Fowler and David Kelly: http://erkembode.com/2013/04/07/for-marcus-slease/ (image: David Kelly) Read more
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Flarf/conceptualism in Manchester 2: Enemies of the North
Tom Jenks and Chris Mccabe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElDk44meVVU Read more
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Brandon Shimoda The Grave on the Wall
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… Read more
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Thank you Tin House & Matthew Dickman
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 Read more
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YOU GAVE ME YOUR ADDERALL
YOU GAVE ME YOUR ADDERALL + fiction by RL Goldberg http://housefirebooks.com/you-gave-me-your-adderall-fiction-rl-goldberg/ Read more
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Mu Dream So Window from Poor Claudia
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 Read more
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The House of Zabka
if you like visuals and other such things visit my other blog The House of Zabka www.marcusslease.tumblr.com Read more
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Mu dream So Window is Ready
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… Read more
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THE SHARK IS GETTING MARRIED
“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… Read more
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Grzegorz Wroblewski in Poems and Paintings
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) Read more
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NEW ISSUE OF GESTURE
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 Read more
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THE ARRANGEMENT AT MONKEYBICYCLE
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/ Read more
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One Minute Sculpture
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… Read more
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HAVE U SEEN MY WHALE
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 .… Read more
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TRANSMISSION 2. CHRISTMAS EVE. KATOWICE POLAND
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… Read more
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TRANSMISSION 1. CHRISTMAS EVE. KATOWICE POLAND
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… Read more
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A Mayan ride in the soft machine
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 Read more
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how the strip club is a constellation & other poems By Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin
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!!! Read more
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how to waste your lunch hour
how to waste your lunch hour by Jennifer Omega http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11662 Read more
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FEELINGS POETRY READING (NORTH LONDON)
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… Read more
