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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: Kenneth Koch

  • Enemies Book

    The new book of collaborations with SJ Fowler and British and European poets is out now from Penned in the Margins. It’s killar!! Must have!! I have a colloboration with SJ Fowler in there. It’s a poem play. In Kenneth Koch style. Staring Lisa Jarnot. check it out. http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2013/09/enemies-2/ SJ Fowler has Enemies. And the…

  • Flarf in Manchester

    Flarf poem plays. Ted Berrigan is in there. And Daniel Day Lewis. And Ian Paisley. And Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, a girl who loves branching, a cow’s wink, mayor Chob, Catherine Chob, Weng, a Scottish soul dancer, a golden horn, carpet trouble, chums, a Gorkha, the mole audace, Sultanahmet in Istanbul, Trieste in…

  • from Smashing Time

      Influenced by NY School poetry. Bernadette Mayer and Kenneth Koch ALSO Philip Whalen (one of my favs) Part of my Nomadic Surrealist project. free pdf here: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/299099 cover painting: Grzegorz Wroblewski

  • some of my poem plays in So and So magazine

    very very happy to be included in this issue . . .check it out . . some cool poetry in there . . so and so magazine

  • coming soon . . . hot hot hot . . .

    from Dzanc Books: A Question Mark Above the Sun Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem “by” Frank O’Hara Expanded Second Edition Kent Johnson Preface by Eric Lorberer Foreword David Koepsell Afterwords by Jeremy Noel-Tod and Joshua Kotin “At the end of last year, an extraordinary work of detective criticism briefly ap- peared, despite…

  • poems from smashing time in issue 2 of La Granada

    some of my poems from manuscript Smashing Time in new issue of the Norwegian magazine  La Granada

  • from Smashing Time! (MIPOesias Chapbook Series)

    My chapbook Smashing Time is now available for free (digital version). Thank you MIPOesias. This book was written shortly after returning to live in London. From 2010 to 2011. Influenced by NY School poets (Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer, and Ted Berrigan mostly). Also the buddhism and writing of Philip Whalen. Also my poet friends Tim…

  • Reading a lot of Philip Whalen and Kenneth Koch

    Friday night. A week drawing to a close. Indian stomach rumbles again from the buffet. Settling in with some ginger tea and reading some plays of Kenneth Koch collected in The Gold Standard. Leaning over bed in this small North London room to type on laptop which rests on a foldable chair. Will return to…

  • via the openned site

    John A. and K. Koch in conversation: sense making

  • cathy Wagner on blogtalk radio

    books coming this week with the brown santa for 37th b-day: 1) The Sore Throat and other poems by Aaron Kunin 2) The Gold Standard a book of plays by Kenneth Koch 3) Pink and Hot Pink Habitat by Natalie Lyalin 4) My New Job by Cathy Wagner interesting radio reading and talk with Cathy…

  • MY LATEST NY SCHOOL POETRY BOOKS

    It is the 28th March. The weather, of course, is mostly overcast. But I am mostly inside so that’s OK. I spend over two hours everyday on trains, commuting to work. Sometimes teaching at two different campuses at different parts of London. So reading, well, it is a form of sanity. I can do a…