Never Mind the Beasts

Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

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Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Silcock has made his home in such places as Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom – experiences that inform his surreal-absurd stories.

Tag: David Kelly-Mancaux

  • 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 http://erkembode.weebly.com/shop.html

  • MISFIT DOC: SPACE MIMIH FIGURES

    My collab with outsider artist Erkembode over at Queen Mob’s Teahouse. Barcode poetry for space mimih figures!!! http://queenmobs.com/2015/12/misfit-doc-space-mimih-figures/

  • 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

  • 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.)

  • POETRY RECEIPT SCROLL FROM BRITISH MUSEUM

    Erkembode (DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX) has created a saintly scroll of my poems (a minimalist version of Kerouac’s On the Road). Erkembode created the poetry scroll while working the gift shop at the British Museum. He said the till was going crazy spewing out poems instead of numbers for receipts. These poems are conversational vernacular poems. A…

  • IT POPS

    Ewa is making chapbooks for my Victorian toilet bowl reading with Richard Barrett this Tuesday. Drawings by David Kelly-Mancaux. The Chapbook is called IT POPS. Ewa made a chapbook a few years ago with nail varnish for the cover called Balloons. I think there is a theme. http://www.artslav.com/

  • Magic Scone

    Eating a magic Scone last night with David Kelly-Mancaux in London before poetry reading. The poetry reading was a word pharmacy at Hardy Tree Gallery. It was very interesting. http://hardytreegallery.com/

  • reading from another kind of mission

    Reading from new manuscript ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION at Poet’s As Saints. Hardy Tree Gallery. Erkembode Exhibit. Nov 23rd 2013. photos by Alexander Kell

  • Poems for Saints that are Poets as Saints

    http://erkembode.com/2013/11/23/poems-for-saints-that-are-poets-as-saints/ THANK YOU SAINT ERKEMBODE!

  • POETRY AND SAINTS

    Saturday 23rd November, 7.30pm – Poets as Saints   hardy tree gallery    near kings cross   London     Event specific poetry by avant-garde poets bouncing around the subject of saints. Poets/saints on board so far are Tim Atkins, SJ Fowler, Robert Kiely, Sarah Kelly, David Berridge and Marcus Slease.      

  • Erkembode exhibition: Marcus Slease – Bruce Andrews

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2BrSHygKfs CANNIBALS ON A DIET GETTING SMALLER GETTING SMALLER GETTING SMALL JIGGLE JIGGLE JIGGLE JIGGLE ETC. a reading of some of Bruce Andrews’ work

  • saints and ghosts

    http://erkembode.com/2013/11/18/photos-and-blab-from-saints-on-film/ a film on the back of my ghost costume

  • LAHORE

    YOU’VE BEEN PUSHING SINCE LAHORE A COLLABORATIVE POST SURREAL TRAVEL STORY OF THREE SAINTS ON A MISSION!!!  WRITTEN BY MARCUS SLEASE, DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX, CHRIS GUTKIND. BASED ON A TRUE STORY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdaiuSEumzs

  • SAINTS ON FILM

    11th November 2013 NOT JUST ANOTHER SAINT PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT HARDY TREE GALLERY IN LONDON. IT WAS CALLED SAINTS ON FILM I changed into a white robe and Saint Erkembode screened the film he made on my back while I read a collaborative story about traveling through London to find a Doom Drone concert. The…

  • saint sandwich

    http://erkembode.com/2013/11/10/saint-sandwich/ This evening I am sandwiched between last night’s K R A M P U S NACHT and tomorrow’s S A I N T S  O N  F I L M events – both part of the NOT JUST ANY OLD SAINTS series for my current ERKEMBODE: NOT JUST ANOTHER SAINT solo exhibition at the…

  • NOT JUST ANOTHER SAINT!!

    Over at the Hardy Tree Saint Erkembode is opening his exhibition tomorrow. Near Kings Cross London. A nice intimate space. Outsider art. No academic bullshit!! check out the schedule . . some great collab between artists performers poets. Come Sat for Krampusnacht to kick it off!