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: JJ Mars

  • BROWN GIRL IN THE RING

    From my ongoing manuscript Never Mind the Beasts. Ring games. South London. Near Elephant and Castle. 1970s. We popped over to South London from Northern Ireland to escape The Troubles. I was a sensitive wee boy.

  • 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, including: instructional essays, alien immigrant memoirs, erotic stories, vignettes, political fables, monologues, and travelogues. Never…

  • GOOGLE TRANSLATE

    https://player.vimeo.com/video/195170235google translate from JJMars on Vimeo.

  • COUCHES AND POMEGRANATES

  • 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 Vimeo.

  • SOUL SUCKING

    DO YOU PREFER SUCKING A SOUL OR HAVING YOUR SOUL SUCKED . . . . https://player.vimeo.com/video/169079845GREAT EXPECTATIONS from JJMars on Vimeo.

  • 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)

  • The Truth is Out There

    https://player.vimeo.com/video/155019113The X Files from JJMars on Vimeo.

  • ONE OF THOSE KIND OF PLACES

    https://vimeo.com/153599023

  • THE BOARS

    https://vimeo.com/152676814

  • 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 Entry – Apiary Studios: 460 Hackney Rd, E2 9EG http://www.theenemiesproject.com/camarade http://www.apiarystudios.org/2015/12/the-enemies-project-presents-camarade-61/ with: Lavinia Singer &…

  • JJ Mars

    A website for JJ Mars http://jjmars.weebly.com/

  • 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

  • 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 lookin fur wild west dancin but no wilde west dancin the brew dog wuz not…

  • Kissing the lipless

    https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/from-play-yr-kardz-right

  • Buks & Beer

    A wee reading for poems at Fog Machine

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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/