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Read more: Play Yr Kardz Right Book Launch
Nice book launch last night. Lots of folks scattered around the bookshop. Great chats with fab folks afterwards. Thanks for coming! Thank you Desperate Literature and Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Gud Tymz!
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Read more: SCARED TO DANCE
indie-pop, post-punk, new wave and sixties music. Scared to Dance. London. Wee interview over at Swimmer’s Club: https://www.all-new.swimmersclub.co.uk/scared-to-dance/
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Read more: In Review: Grzegorz Wróblewski’s Zero Visibility
Nice review of Wróblewski’s Zero Visibility over at Asymptote Literary Journal. Another planet indeed. http://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2017/09/14/in-review-grzegorz-wroblewskis-zero-visibility/
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Read more: DREW GARDNER
TERRIFIC POEMS BY DREW GARDNER OVER AT EMPTY MIRROR: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/poems-by-drew-gardner.html
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Read more: THE ALL NEW SWIMMER’S CLUB
The all new swimmer’s club. Now over at the classic indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe:
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Read more: The Dostoyevsky Wannabe Switchboard
Lots of goodies over here: https://switchboard.dostoyevskywannabe.com/
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Read more: KIDDIEPUNK THIS IS YATES
FASCINATING 12 MIN DOCUMENTARY FROM FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA “Less a confessional documentary than a mixtape that samples a copious personal archive, “This is Yates” pan-n-scans a wide track of time, running from the near-present back beyond pre-pubescence to home movies…
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Read more: PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT
MY NEW BOOK, PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT, IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE RAD DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE. ALMOST CHEAP AS CHIPS . . . BUY IT HERE: https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/original/play_yr_kardz_right HERE ARE SOME BLURBS “Marcus Slease’s gentle & generous engagements with the ephemera of…
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Read more: Swimmer’s Club Seven Up
Seven of my current loves over at Swimmer’s Club. It is hard to choose seven. They are only seven. But maybe a good seven. There is the Czech nomadic surrealism of Lukas Tomin, the Canadian surrealism of Guy Maddin. Sun…
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Read more: THE HOUSE OF ZABKA
Excerpt from my novel in progress The Autobiography of Don Whiskers A hybrid novel (in the form of an immigrant memoir, prose poetry, and interlocking surreal flash fictions). Some influences include Richard Brautigan, Miranda July, Lukas Tomin, David Lynch,…
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Read more: BLUE PUEBLO
GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI’S “BLUE PUEBLO” OVER AT EMPTY MIRROR. RIMBAUDIAN NIGHTMARISH FALL OF MAN LOVE RECOVERY DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/grzegorz-wroblewski-blue-pueblo.html
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Read more: MUSHEE PIEZ & FRIED PINEAPPULZ
AN INTERVIEW WITH POET MARCUS SLEASE IN CELEBRATION OF HIS UPCOMING BOOK FROM DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE OVER AT ENTROPY https://entropymag.org/mushee-piez-fried-pineappulz-an-interview-with-poet-marcus-slease/
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Read more: GIRL AT END
https://www.swimmersclub.co.uk/treadingwater/syntax_error FROM GIRL AT END COMING SOON FROM RICHARD BRAMMER AND DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE EXPERIMENT https://www.swimmersclub.co.uk/treadingwater/syntax_error
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Read more: SWIMMER’S CLUB SNEAKY PEEK
Sneaky peek slash preview of some poems from Play Yr Kardz Right coming soon from the fabulous indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Over at Swimmer’s Club: https://www.swimmersclub.co.uk/treadingwater/play_yr_kardz_right
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Read more: LIFE IS UNBEARABLE
My review of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s book of poems, Zero Visibility, is up at the terrific Empty Mirror: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/book-review-life-is-unbearable-grzegorz-wroblewskis-zero-visibility.html
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Read more: THE HERMIT AND THE EMPEROR
From my novel The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. Finally hope to complete it after seven years by the end of this summer. Maybe. The novel is nomadic life writing plus a kind of surrealism and absurdism. A new kind of…
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Read more: SLOW CULTURE
I answered some questions about Why I Write over at Slow Culture. A series that continues what George Orwell started over 80 years ago. A wee promo for my upcoming book Play Yr Kardz Right from Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Very shot…
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Read more: DESPERATE LITERATURE READING MADRID
A wee performance at Desperate Literature Bookshop. Madrid. 14th April 2017.
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Read more: ZERO VISIBILITY
A very interesting essay by Piotr Gwiazda on translating Grzegorz Wróblewski’s latest book into English, Zero Visibility Check it out over here: http://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/grzegorz-wroblewski-zero-visibility/
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Read more: UPCOMING PERFORMANCE AT DESPERATE LITERATURE BOOKSHOP IN MADRID
I am performing with London based poet Chris Gutkind at Desperate Literature bookshop in Madrid. April 14th. Tonight two poets (one local, one not) in a wham bam double thankya mam. Chris Gutkind mostly started out in Montreal and has…
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Read more: GRAMMA POETRY
THREE OF MY POEMS TODAY ON DAILY GRAMMA. THERE IS A NICE SWAN. http://gramma.press/daily/marcus-slease-three-poems/
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Read more: CONVERSATIONS WITH SOOTHSAYER BIRDS AND OTHERS . .
My Shamanistic mix track from conversations with soothsayer birds and others . .
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Read more: SAINT TOM
https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/saint-tom Setting: A government housing estate called Coffee Hall in Milton Keynes, UK. Characters: David Bowie, Neil Diamond, the Milton Keynes Bowl, hot air balloon, a mars bar,a rocket ship, an American mall, a playground, a 10 year old boy.…
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Read more: SAINT PRIMAL
Currently finishing up my manuscript Never Mind the Beasts. Never Mind the Beasts is a book of saints with many settings, including: Lisbon, London, Milton Keynes, Hurricane, Portadown, Katowice, Faro, and Texas. It is a great mashup bursting with flavours,…
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Read more: GOOGLE TRANSLATE
https://player.vimeo.com/video/195170235google translate from JJMars on Vimeo.
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Read more: BAPTISM
A LITTLE STORY FROM MADRID. FROM MY ALMOST FINISHED MANUSCRIPT THE GREEN MONK. THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF BAPTISMS. IT BEGINS WITH A CLAY TEAPOT FOR THE NOSE.
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Read more: ZIPPERS
HOW IS YOUR ZIPPER? https://player.vimeo.com/video/192234342zippers from JJMars on Vimeo.
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Read more: THE CAKES
It is a saint day in East Madrid. The narrator learns Go Fish and King Alfred and peasants and burning cakes. The barbarians are at the gate. They learn to live simply. A true story. Is it Buddhism? Maybe! from…
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Read more: TINY HOUSE
https://vimeo.com/186089921 The true story of a search for home and the attempt to alleviate or ameliorate a mostly musty existence with showers of flowers and living kind of close to nature but not with swans. https://player.vimeo.com/video/186089921Tiny House from JJMars on…
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Read more: POSTMAN PAT
POSTMAN PAT from my new book in progress: Alien Memory Machine (transmissions from Iberia) https://player.vimeo.com/video/185125441POSTMAN PAT from JJMars on Vimeo.
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Read more: Monday 5th September 2016
My new phone is coming today. A motorola. Not elegant. Simple. But should get the job done. I mean, I should be able to use Tuenti app and make calls and texts (if needed). I hardly ever text or call,…
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Read more: GOODBYE LONDON
Final day in London. Last minute charity shop runs and bag weight reshufflings. Then chill in North London with Chris Gutkind. North London is where London began for me over 7 years ago. By noon tomorrow we will be residents…
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Read more: The Nighttime Economy
My short reading at Rich Mix, East London last night. Part of the Nightime Economy exhibition: https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/the-night-time-economy-exhibition-marcus-slease-1 A collaborative exhibition of photography and poetry exploring the often fractious energy and environment of Newport, Wales’ nightclubs and pubs. Conceived and created…
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Read more: PUBLIC POOLHave some wee London stories over at Public Pool with audio. “Snug” and “Dinosaurs.” From my novel in progress The Autobiography of Don Whiskers:
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Read more: Euromix: Drunk with Fire
The writer/performer Zarina Zabrisky’s Euromix: Drunk with Fire. Brexit protest in London. Over Here: https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/euromix-drunk-with-fire-d2dbefc84818#.w24mxkdqf
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Read more: FAREWELL NOMADIC SURREALIST PERFORMANCE IN LONDON
Part of the reading from last night at Xing the Line. Poems and stories from ongoing manuscript The Green Monk. Influenced by Mormonism, Lydia Davis, Ivor Cutler, James Tate, and others. https://player.vimeo.com/video/171918072 Xing the Line Farewell Reading Part Two from…
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Read more: XING THE LINE FAREWELL READING
I read at Xing the Line last night. My last reading before leaving to live in Madrid. On the eve of the big vote. Maybe I will not be gone long. Who knows. I hope I am still an EU…
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Read more: OHIO EDIT
“At the lunch table there is a new man. He has been to Dubai and it is very hot. But worse than that is Vegas he says. He gets very excited about Vegas. You have to step into the casinos…
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Read more: 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/
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Read more: SOUL SUCKING
DO YOU PREFER SUCKING A SOUL OR HAVING YOUR SOUL SUCKED . . . . https://player.vimeo.com/video/169079845GREAT EXPECTATIONS from JJMars on Vimeo.
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Read more: from Rides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmm3xjknAc Blart Books. Available also via Amazon.
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Read more: REVIEW OF MY POETRY IN POLISH
A nice review of nomadic life and poetry over at: http://www.biuroliterackie.pl/biblioteka/cykle/hello-tiny-tird-brain/ HELLO TINY BIRD BRAIN!! Thank you Grzegorz Wroblewski!!!!
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Read more: LIVES OF THE IRISH MIMIH
Saints/Mimih/Migration Compendium.Featuring art, poetry and prose by Marcus Slease, @TjaKm, Pascal O’Loughlin, Lucy Jane Hilton, Stuart Westerby, Irish Poetry Shop, Erkembode, Catherine Carncross, Geoffrey Buoys & Sian Williams.Edited by David Kelly-Mancaux.Translucent.Initial limited run of #22.Expected arrival. June 2016.ISBN: 978-0957349636 £7 INCLUDING POSTAGE…
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Read more: THE FORCE
https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/the-force FROM ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION. THIS ONE IS ABOUT BENDY BANANA KICKS.AND STARS WARS. IT TAKES PLACE IN COFFEE HALL. A GOVERNMENT HOUSING ESTATE IN MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND. IN THE 80’S.
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Read more: TWO POEMS IN POTLUCK MAGAZINE
Two of my poems over at Potluck Magazine. Good journeys. http://www.potluckmag.com/may-2016/2016/5/5/two-poems
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Read more: from Play Yr Kardz Right
Some hybrid fast fiction prose poems from immigrant and travel memoir: Play Yr Kardz Right. In new issue of magazine Past Simple 11: www.pastsimple.org/ps11.MSlease.html
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Read more: PAST SIMPLE ELEVEN
Happy to have some new work from my poetry memoir Play Yr Kardz Right in the new Past Simple. Terrific issue with Native American poetry and innovative poetry from Arizona and the UK!!! http://www.pastsimple.org/
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Read more: RABBIT SOUP
Recorded a wee poem . . back in another lifetime in my hick days in Hurricane Utah . . first loves and sherbets and walt whitman and deserts and rabbits and cricks and first kiss no tongue .. . HERE…
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Read more: EILEEN MYLES AND GETTING PAID
Eileen Myles gives me hope. Not necessarily for money for poetry. Although I did get paid £50 for my poems in Tin House and that felt somehow a little validating. Even more than the money was having poems in Tin…
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Read more: 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…
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Read more: KAKANIA SYMPOSIUM
Did a reading and short talk at Austrian Cultural Forum in London yesterday. The spirit of the Vienna Secessionists through Max Kurzweil’s paintings Woman in a Yellow Dress and Despair. Imagination and freedom!! The only war is the war against…
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Read more: TIN HOUSE MAGAZINEI was super happy to have two poems in the faith issue of Tin House Magazine. They were later published in my book The Green Monk (Boiler House Press). From my poem “Sacred Spring” in the faith issue of Tin…
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Read more: THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
New poem by JJ Mars (my side project) over at FOR EVERY YEAR. Thanks Crispin Best. http://www.foreveryyear.eu/2016/03/1806-co-jj-mars.html (Painting by Oliver Hibert)
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Read more: MIXING THE ARTS
Flashback Friday to 2013 performance at Hardy Tree Gallery in London with sound artist Ben Morris. Great two weeks of performances and exhibitions, including the artist known as Erkembode. Mixing the arts is very good. Specialisation is boring. Visual art,…
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Read more: The Truth is Out There
https://player.vimeo.com/video/155019113The X Files from JJMars on Vimeo.
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Read more: GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI OVER AT THE FISHHOUSE
Fantastico Wroblewski poems over at The Fishhouse. Translated and read by Piotr Gwiazda. The best of Polish poetry!!! A nomadic surrealism. http://www.fishousepoems.org/artist/grzegorz-wroblewski/
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Read more: ONE OF THOSE KIND OF PLACES
https://vimeo.com/153599023
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Read more: THE BOARS
https://vimeo.com/152676814
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Read more: Marcus Slease and Tim Atkins
I am performing with Tim Atkins this Saturday. Tim Atkins is innovative British poetry at its very best. Scrap that. He is more than British innovative poetry. Buddhist dharma poetry. Camarade 61 – January Saturday 16th – 7pm – Free…
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Read more: ALIEN LUV
https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/the-man-who-fell-to-earth
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Read more: JJ Mars
A website for JJ Mars http://jjmars.weebly.com/
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Read more: JOY
A POEM INSPIRED BY JOY . THE MOVIE.
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Read more: CHUCK CHUCK CHEEZ
Made uh soundtrack to old cartoon of psychosexual tenshunz the sung is kalld chuck chuck cheez it iz about the sedukshun uv of the text https://vimeo.com/150527959
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Read more: Sexee Peepulz
bewtee bewtee wat iz bewtee frumpee bewtee hellish bewtee kold wet englush bewtee kold bewtee we want to git wet & warm nakid sun kist beech boobs & bums hairee & smooth pecks such uh bewtee ful mess since we…
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Read more: Kaptin Kidd
What an advenchur sumhow we ended up with whiskee shots & mur beer fur qik stop pee brake on sum east lundun wet syde street & at the veree end veree strong 11% brew dog we wandurd around olde street…
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Read more: Kissing the lipless
https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/from-play-yr-kardz-right
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Read more: Buks & Beer
A wee reading for poems at Fog Machine
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Read more: Fog Machine Poems
My first published poems as JJ Mars. From manuscript called Play Yr Kardz Right. Published over at Fog Machine. http://fogmachine.life/blog/2015/12/1/seven-by-jj-mars
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Read more: THE WICKER MAN
The British have voted for more bombing. Minimalist drone shows, stick figures, military stations, hoof prints on the coffee table, skeleton trees, a manual for legs, and a warning note near the great mustard wheel pulled by a large horse.…
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Read more: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
My new vixen short short. It takes place in the heart room at a party and on the porch. Blood is a warning sign. The heart of a dummy cannot be destroyed.https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/let-the-right-one-in
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Read more: BEST OF POLISH POETRY IN TRANSLATION
Some awesome translations of Polish poet Grzegorz Wroblewski in Jacket 2. In conversation with perhaps the most powerful Polish poet of the 20th century. Tadeusz Różewicz. A special issue about Polish poetry after Rozewicz.http://jacket2.org/polish-poetry-after-rozewicz Wroblewski’s poems are translated by Piotr…
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Read more: THE GREAT GULLET
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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Read more: “My muse is not a horse” Kylie Minogue reads Nick Cave letter to MTV
EXACTLY!!!! FREAKING MEASUREMENTS ARE EVERYWHERE (EDUCATION, THE ARTS, CORPORATE CULTURE!!) HOLY SHIT!! WE NEED MORE HOLY SHIT!!
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Read more: AND NOW, THE END IS NEAR
COLLAGE ART BY BEN STAINTON IN MY WRITING ROOM. IT IS VERY GOOD!!
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Read more: BEST BRITISH POETRY 2015
Have a poem in Best British Poetry 2015. Inspired by Alan Watts and the earth. It’s called “The Underground.” Originally published in Lighthouse magazine. Thanks Emily Berry.
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Read more: BEAR PRESS MIMIH ZINE
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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Read more: THE BIRDS
SEEDZ SEEDZ SEEDZ https://player.vimeo.com/video/143366053 THE BIRDS from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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Read more: KEYHOLE MAGAZINE
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.…
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Read more: MISTER MUSTARD
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…
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Read more: BATHTUB 18
My poem “Bathtub 18” published in Juked magazine October 2015. (art by Marie Jonsson-Harrison) https://player.vimeo.com/video/141847565 bathtub 18 from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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Read more: SIN CITIES
https://player.vimeo.com/video/141842682 SIN CITIES from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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Read more: JUKED
I am happy to have a poem in Juked magazine. How we bounce from one thing to another. It is hard to choose between being beautiful or funny. The poem has many good couplets. There are very elastic. You can throw…
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Read more: ENGLISH TRIFLES
I have long admired the trifle. It is the crown jewel of English sweets. I often remember it at Christmas. I felt a bit of nostalgia for the trifle when I lived in America. My memories are often connected with…
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Read more: FREE VERSE POETRY FAIR
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…
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Read more: BLUE PUEBLO PROJECT
Looking forward to seeing this fantastic Grzegorz Wroblewski and Wojciech Wilczyk exhibition in Krakow. Photography and poetry.16.10.2015 – 17.01.2016MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART KRAKOW (photograph: Wojciech Wilczyk)“The exhibition is pivoted on a fusion of poetry and photography. In 2013, Grzegorz Wróblewski wrote his…
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Read more: POWDER KEG
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…
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Read more: BATHTUB 50 IN MACKINAC MAGAZINE
A short narrative poem about vibration therapy. It takes place in Katowice, Poland. The poem was published in the fab journal The Mackinac: themackinacmagazine.com/marcus-slease.html
Never Mind the Beasts 