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Read more: BATHTUB POEMS IN THE MACKINAC POETRY MAGAZINE
http://www.themackinacmagazine.com/marcus-slease.html Some poems in super new issue of the Mackinac. Super happy to be in there. Two poems from Katowice, Poland and one from London, England.
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Read more: WHY I AM A MEMBER OF THE RON PADGETT FAN CLUB
Count me in! http://hyperallergic.com/94782/why-i-am-a-member-of-the-ron-padgett-fan-club/
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Read more: ELEPHANCHE
Elephanche is a limited edition pamphlet of 12 poemplays written by Marcus Slease and SJ Fowler, and published by Department press in March 2013. It was launched at the Cornerhouse Gallery in Manchester. Cover collage by Tom Raworth. Check it…
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Read more: TRIESTE
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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Read more: THE POETRY ACROSS THE POND
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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Read more: HORSES
HORSES ARE REALLY SOMETHING ELSE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQPvdHsAow&feature=youtu.be
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Read more: No Surrender
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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Read more: Edible Ghosts
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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Read more: BLUE LIGHT SPECIALS AND PLACENTAS
A short excerpt From my recently finished novel NEVER MIND THE BEASTS. Will be sending it out to publishers/agents soon. Fingers crossed. Never Mind the Beasts is a 1985 coming-of-age story of Henry, a recent immigrant from Portadown, N. Ireland.…
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Read more: BUBBLE MAKER
https://vimeo.com/134944360 Homeless beach dwellers. Summer 2014. Almeria, Spain.
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Read more: SUNSHINE SUPERMAN
WRITTEN IN GENOA. PART OF NEW MANUSCRIPT. CHECK IT OUT HERE: https://vimeo.com/134836919
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Read more: Mahu: an exhibition by SJ Fowler
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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Read more: SPACESHIPS ISSUE 1
Collaborating (as JJ Mars) with the artist David Kelly-Mancaux (as Erkembode). Spaceships have landed in London, Katowice, Da Nang, Singapore, Leeds & Bologna. Words: JJ Mars, Visuals: ErkembodeDeadwood Press vs Bear Press. Here is issue 1: http://www.erkembode.com/blog/spaceships-1
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Read more: LONDON HEAT WAVE
POEM FROM NEW MANUSCRIPT: MY HEART SWIMS IN BLOOD
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Read more: JESS FELDMAN
ONE OF MY VERY FAVOURITE CHAPBOOKS EVER!!! JESS FELDMAN IS VERY VERY GOOD!! YES!!!! https://nevermindthebeasts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/f4343-call_it_a_premonition_final.pdf
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Read more: GINA KEICHER
TERRIFIC POEM FROM GINA KEICHER OVER AT BOAAT PRESS. IT IS CALLED “DATE NIGHT IN HIGH HUMIDITY”. “EQUAL PARTS / LAUNDRY AND VINEGAR” YES! http://www.boaatpress.com/date-night-in-high-humidity
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Read more: DEALING WITH PERFECTIONISM AND TRAUMA
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WINNER.
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Read more: erkembode relaunched
the outsider artist ERKEMBODE has relaunched. Good works. Enjoying on an overcast Saturday morning. http://www.erkembode.com/ (Erkembode in Da Nang, Vietnam.)
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Read more: Mahu: celebrating Tom Raworth
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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Read more: 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
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Read more: 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
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Read more: MOTH CITY
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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Read more: ALEX MACDONALD
Two fab poems over at The Quietus. Sometimes good poetry happens on this island. The Quietus has the pulse. Yeah! Viking of 6th Avenue! http://thequietus.com/articles/13419-two-poems-alex-macdonald
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Read more: PLAYHOUSE64
Bathtub poems. Written in a bathtub in Katowice, Poland. Published at Playhouse64. Thank you Playhouse64. https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/bathtubs-for-playhouse64 http://www.playhouse64.co.uk/tagged/selectedwork/chrono
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Read more: REVIEW OF DMT
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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Read more: Zane Rubin
ZANE RUBIN is a 17-year-old high school dropout currently residing in Los Angeles. In the two and a half years following her withdrawal from school, she has written, directed, and acted in four short films and a feature. Her target…
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Read more: CHRISTIE ANN REYNOLDS
Christie Ann Reynolds terrific poem “From Halo in Retrograde” is over at glitterMOB. glitterMOB is one of fav places for poetry. Maybe my very favourite. Fresh fresh exciting. http://www.glittermobmag.com/christie-ann-reynolds.html
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Read more: SHOEBURYNESS
“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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Read more: sharon mesmer
What If Everything Is Really Okay? http://www.glittermobmag.com/sharon-mesmer.html
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Read more: PLACEBO FOR PAIN
POEM FOR THURSDAY 30 APRIL 2015. THE SUN. THE CLOUDS. THE ZOLOFT LAMICTAL PROZAC COCKTAIL. THEY COME. THEY GO.
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Read more: BATHTUB 28
THE POLISH DONUT SPECIAL. WRITTEN ON POLISH NATIONAL DONUT DAY. IN THE BATHTUB. THEY ARE CALLED Pączki. THEY ARE VERY GOOD.
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Read more: BATHTUB 63
BATHTUB 63. THE MARGHERITA SPECIAL.
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Read more: THE BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL
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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Read more: BATHTUB 42
More stories from the bathtub. This is about a man in a cow field, and cud, and balloons. But really it is about your thoughts.
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Read more: Wu-Wei Fashion Mag
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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Read more: The Enemies project: Marcus Slease & Tomas Mielcarek
Collaborative reading with the Polish British poet Tomas Mielcarek. We are both nomads. And also immigrants. Many times over. Maybe someday I will be classified as an Irish writer (since that is my citizenship and birthplace). But who knows. No…
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Read more: circus on ice
Catania Sicily beach of debris. A frozen circus. Working on a prose poem for my manuscript The Green Monk about dolls from Saturn.
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Read more: OK CUPID
Poem OK CUPID (written in Spanish Fork, Utah 2012) over at Prelude Magazine: https://preludemag.com/posts/ok-cupid/
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Read more: THE HORSE HOSPITAL 19 Feb 2015
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…
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Read more: TOAD SUCK REVIEW
Super happy to in the new TOAD SUCK REVIEW. With Linda King on Bukowski, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Ed Dorn, Henri Michaux, Cass Cross, Stacy Kidd, Ken Waldman and lotsa other goodness. Feels good in the hands!! http://www.toadsuckreview.org/
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Read more: Rumour Cubes – The Gove Curve (Live @ Surya, London, 10.03.13)
The space in which The Gove Curve was written and performed was a space in which Conservative MP Michael Gove was proposing and initiating a series of education reforms. He was doing this in the context of economic cuts to…
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Read more: BATHTUB 68
MORE STORIES FROM THE BATHTUB. THIS IS BATHTUB 68. I AM ALMOST AT 100 PAGES. THIS MIGHT BE MY LIFE EPIC.
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Read more: QUEEN MOB’S TEAHOUSE
Some of my poems over at Queen Mob’s Teahouse today. Chevron erotics and graveyard aliens. http://queenmobs.com/2015/01/poems-marcus-slease/
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Read more: THE BIG EGG
THE BIG EGG “on the streets / of Spanish Fork / women/ come sailing / for the Chinese/ buffet”
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Read more: BATHTUB 25
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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Read more: REVIEW OF GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI IN ENGLISH
Nice review over here of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s collection LET’S GO BACK TO THE MAINLAND: http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=23672
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Read more: Tomaž Šalamun
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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Read more: GLITTERMOB XMAS SPECIAL
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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Read more: MARGHERITA POETRY
//player.vimeo.com/video/115163175 BATHTUB 11 from marcus slease on Vimeo. MORE STORIES FROM THE BATHTUB IN POLAND . .
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Read more: for Aaron Slease 15 December 2014
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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Read more: THE BIG EGG
SOME POEMS FROM THE BIG EGG //player.vimeo.com/video/114644063 THE BIG EGG from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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Read more: Animal Bodies at Sunset and Sunrise (remix 1)
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…
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Read more: Grzegorz Wróblewski with Sebastian Pypłacz
Performance zarejestrowany podczas spotkania SławaSłowa w KATO zorganizowanego przez redakcje Kwartalnika Literackiego FA-art, 13 listopada 2014 roku w Katowicach.Grzegorz Wróblewski, poeta, malarz i dramaturg związany z Wydawnictwem FA-art, którego nakładem ukazały się książki „Hologramy” (zbiór dramatów, 2006) oraz „Pan Roku,…
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Read more: TEST ON MONKEYS
Grzegorz Wroblewski’s TEST ON MONKEYS ( Translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda) at Brooklyn Rail Nominated for a Pushcart. Much deserved. check it out: http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/polish/poetry-by-grzegorz-wroblewski
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Read more: SMALL SELECTION OF ANIMAL ART POEMS FROM 2001-2014
SOME ANIMAL ART POEMS WITH WALT WHITMAN AND PSYCHEDELIC ART. IT IS SHAMANISTIC AND TRANS. CROSSING BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES. THERE ARE MANY ANIMALS, ESPECIALLY BEAVERS, MY SPIRIT GUIDE.
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Read more: Kakania Trailer
Happy to be a part of this!!!
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Read more: Chemical Reactions
Piotr Gwiazda translating the Polish of Grzegorz Wróblewski . Terrific!!! http://www.anomalouspress.org/13/4.gwiazda.chemical.php
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Read more: 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.
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Read more: CHOIR OF YOUNG BELEIVERS
From my manuscript New Foam. Over at Right Hand Pointing: http://www.righthandpointing.net/#!80-marcus-slease/c1svv
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Read more: MAP LITERARY
Some poems from my ms MILK TOP MAGIC HAT over at Map Literary: http://www.mapliterary.org/marcus-slease.html little men in my bathtub, rainy Bukowski southwest train to Reading, E.T. and rocket ships in Milton Keynes. Some fantastic poetry and fiction over there. Like…
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Read more: Paddy’s Cure
My collaboration with Pascal O’Loughlin. Published in limited edition by Deadwood Press (October 2014). Nomadic Surrealism. A boundary hopping collection. Limited edition, but they have a copy in British Poetry Library.
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Read more: Wróblewski – Program Merkury – Impresja
GRAND FINALE OF GRZEGORZ WROBLEWKI EXHIBITION IN WARSAW. TERRIFIC PAINTER, POET, THINKER, ARTIST, HUMAN BEING! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-7mcxYkcb8
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Read more: 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
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Read more: KATOWICE POSTCARDS
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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Read more: SWISS
https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/swisswav I sold Burpie seeds & accidental death on the phones
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Read more: TOOTSIE ROLLS
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…
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Read more: CRUSTED
FROM MANUSCRIPT NEW FOAM:
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Read more: BOMB
short piece about bombs bombs bombs. And not wanting to be sad anymore. From new revised manuscript written in Poland.
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Read more: A DARK DREAMBOX OF ANOTHER KIND
https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/alfred-starr-hamilton-poemswav
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Read more: The Papermill Playhouse
Alfred Starr Hamilton. One of my favourite American surrealists!!!
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Read more: The passenger syndrome
An interview with my close friend and fellow traveler Grzegorz Wróblewski at JACKET 2. IT IS VERY GOOD!!! KOPENHAGA IS VERY VERY GOOD!!! http://jacket2.org/interviews/passenger-syndrome (painting by Grzegorz Wroblewski: “Don’t Tread on Me”)
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Read more: short poems by Ben Stainton
THEY ARE VERY GOOD. THEY SOMETIMES REMIND OF RICHARD BRAUTIGAN AND EVEN MORE MIKE TOPP. BUT THEY ARE NOT. THEY ARE BEN STAINTON PLUS WHO KNOWS WHAT. LOTS OF THINGS. THESE POEMS MAKE ME FEEL MORE FLUID. I LIKE FEELING…
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Read more: Tiny Creatures
TINY CREATURES From a novella in progress called Tiny Creatures. Lots of flash fictions moving into novela. Katowice, Poland 23rd August 2014.
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Read more: Grzegorz Wroblewski in Museum of Literature in Warsaw
1. Amager with Wojtek Wilczyk2. About Pawel Kelner Rozwadowski3. Asemic writing. Red
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Read more: 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.
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Read more: DARK AMBIENT
A DARK AMBIENT VERSION OF RIDES. AVAILABLE NOW FROM BLART BOOKS
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Read more: OLD ANGEL MIDNIGHT WITH COOLIDGE AND GIZZI
LOVE OLD ANGEL MIDNIGHT. LOVE JACK KEROUAC, MICHAEL GIZZI AND CLARK COOLIDGE TOO. LISTEN TO THIS EVERY FEW MONTHS . JAMES JOYCE WAS MY FIRST LITERARY CRUSH. THIS IS AMERICAN FINNEGAN’S WAKE. IT IS VERY GOOD AND MAKES ME HAPPY.…
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Read more: Pawel Kelner Rozwadowski and Grzegorz Wroblewski
Opening night of Grzegorz’s exhibition at Muzeum Literatury w WarszawieA legend of Polish alternative music Pawel Kelner Rozwadowski playing a number with Grzegorz Wroblewski’s text “Matrix”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxlH_-iUsgU&feature=youtu.be
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Read more: 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…
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Read more: 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…
Never Mind the Beasts 