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
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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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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 out:www.stevenjfowler.com/elephanche
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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”
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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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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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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. Told in the style of vignettes, we move inside the mind of Henry as he attempts to adapt to 1980’s American culture and his new religion of Mormonism. First in a trailer park in Vallejo, California and then in Las Vegas. But the past catches up with him, especially the trauma and delayed PTSD of witnessing a man being blown up by a bomb in his hometown of Portadown, N. Ireland during the height of The Troubles. At age 20, halfway through a Mormon mission, Henry has a breakdown and is diagnosed by a Mormon psychiatrist as having “a touch of schizophrenia.” He returns to a small town in the Utah desert to try again, unsuccessfully, to fit into his new culture and religion. While working with retired lesbian nuns at a bookshop in a small Utah town, he reads world mythology, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and On the Road and decides, like Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, to embark on a quest for a new vision. Accompanied by his imaginary friends Lucy and Anthony, he wanders in the Utah desert and confronts his demons as well as his supposed saviours. Didi, a Polish-American S&M star, a man with craters, and three top notch former Brazilian beauty queen winners try to fix Henry with The Treatment. But a mysterious grey man keeps transporting him into other worlds. Never Mind the Beasts is a story of the power of reconciling with the beasts of our past and allowing imagination, no matter how unconventional, to lead the way towards healing.
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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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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: Erkembode
Deadwood Press vs Bear Press.Here is issue 1:
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POEM FROM NEW MANUSCRIPT: MY HEART SWIMS IN BLOOD
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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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TERRIFIC POEM FROM GINA KEICHER OVER AT BOAAT PRESS. IT IS CALLED “DATE NIGHT IN HIGH HUMIDITY”.
“EQUAL PARTS / LAUNDRY AND VINEGAR”
YES!
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WINNER.
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the outsider artist ERKEMBODE has relaunched. Good works. Enjoying on an overcast Saturday morning.
(Erkembode in Da Nang, Vietnam.)
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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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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 FANCY
http://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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FANTASTIC NIGHT OF READINGS WITH BLART PRESS AND HOME BAKED BOOKS AT HARDY TREE GALLERY FOR MAHU!!!
SUNDAY 7TH JUNE 2015
Chris Stephenson, Richard Barrett, Marcus Slease, Stephen Emmerson, Cathy Weedon, MJ Weller, SJ Fower -
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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More fab poems over at The Quietus. From Barcelona-based poet Luna Miguel. Beastly & beautiful.
http://thequietus.com/articles/14611-two-poems-by-luna-miguel
(painting: “naked mole rat dreams” by Ursulav)
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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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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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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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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 demographic is Jewish men age 35-70. Zane has an aversion to “the system,” debilitating anxiety, and nail psoriasis.
check out her video over at glitterMOB:
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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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“it was called shoeburynessit was very Englishthe signs saiddon’t walk on beachyou might blow upor diewe 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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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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BATHTUB 63. THE MARGHERITA SPECIAL.
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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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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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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).
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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 one has classified me as Irish unless I classify myself as Irish. But I am a world citizen. Interplanetary. But also Irish. Of the exiled kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdx1q2svvE
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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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Poem OK CUPID (written in Spanish Fork, Utah 2012)
over at Prelude Magazine:
https://preludemag.com/posts/ok-cupid/
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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 London. A home for innovative art.
http://www.thehorsehospital.com/now/kakania-iii/
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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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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 Britain’s state and welfare institutions. London based poet Steve Willey on vocals.
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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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“Well, we’d spent that summer burying boys who drove 8 cylinders of steel into familiar trees like folding into the fat arms of big breasted waitresses going nowhere soon. We buried sisters, brothers, would-be lovers. Unraveled bones from grain threshers. Swamped stalls and popped cherry in river banks where we rose like angels stinking of earth and sweet cum.”
check out Dani Sandal’s kick ass tale over at Baltimore Review:
http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/winter_2015/contributor/dani-sandal
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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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THE BIG EGG
“on the streets / of Spanish Fork / women/ come sailing / for the Chinese/ buffet”
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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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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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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 SOMELEGS< ONIONSHONKY TONKS>IN THE NEW ISSUE . .CHECK IT:
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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 POEMS FROM THE BIG EGG
//player.vimeo.com/video/114644063 THE BIG EGG from marcus slease on Vimeo.
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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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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, Trawy i Turkusów” (wiersze, 2009). Jego twórczość pojawiła się również na łamach kwartalnika literackiego „FA-art”.
Plastyczna działalność Wróblewskiego związana jest głównie z niezależną sceną artystyczną w Kopenhadze, gdzie razem z m.in. Victorem Hallem, Torbenem Dalhofem i Flemmingiem Gebauerem współtworzył undergroundową grupę Totem (druga połowa lat dziewięćdziesiątych) i realizował wspólne plastyczne akcje z Doris Bloom. -
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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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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Happy to be a part of this!!!
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Piotr Gwiazda translating the Polish of Grzegorz Wróblewski .
Terrific!!!
http://www.anomalouspress.org/13/4.gwiazda.chemical.php
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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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THIS IS NOT A NOVEL!!!
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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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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 Anne Gorrick’s measurements to the sun for example.
Stellar!
It is part of my book in progress Play Yr Kardz Right.
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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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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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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:
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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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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:
the full meal of Lighthouse mag (with more poems) coming soon. A launch in South London too! Mighty good. Thanks Angus and Laura!!
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FROM MANUSCRIPT NEW FOAM:
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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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Someone took a picture of me reading at Cabaret Hrabal at the Horse Hospital. I am probably saying something about the trash compactors of Hrabal and my life as an endless train of nomadic travel (in body and spirit). Part of my ongoing manuscript Play Yr Kardz Right.
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Alfred Starr Hamilton. One of my favourite American surrealists!!!
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An interview with my close friend and fellow traveler Grzegorz Wróblewski at JACKET 2. IT IS VERY GOOD!!! KOPENHAGA IS VERY VERY GOOD!!!
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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 FLUID. IT IS BETTER THAN FEELING SOLID. FLUIDS RULE. SOLIDS THINK THEY RULE. THEY DO NOT. I AM ALL FOR FLUIDS.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ben-stainton-short-fish/
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From a novella in progress called Tiny Creatures. Lots of flash fictions moving into novela. Katowice, Poland 23rd August 2014.
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It was an absolutely terrific night! SOOOOOOOOO happy to have my poem commissioned for Hrabal night at Horse Hospital in London and to perform with awesome poets, actors, and artists. I love Hrabal.
So many great performers/readers, including:
Eva Danickova, Josh Alexander, Lucinka Eisler, Stephen Emmerson, Tom Jenks, Zoe Skoulding, and more!
Organised by SJ Fowler and Czech Centre London.
Here is my reading at The Horse Hospital
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1. Amager with Wojtek Wilczyk
2. About Pawel Kelner Rozwadowski
3. Asemic writing. Red
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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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A DARK AMBIENT VERSION OF RIDES. AVAILABLE NOW FROM BLART BOOKS
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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. BIG THUNDER IN HEAVENS OF LONDON TODAY. THIS IS HEAVEN!
http://ubu.com/sound/kerouac_midnight.html
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Opening night of Grzegorz’s exhibition at Muzeum Literatury w Warszawie
A 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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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 the U.K.
Rides is part of my nomadic surrealist project.
AVAILABLE OVER HERE:
Never Mind the Beasts 