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: Madrid

  • Psychic Marmalade Part Two

    Alchemia is a place in the old Jewish area of Krakow. Old world Bohemian. It is also a practice. I wrote “Alchemia” in Alchemia with the aid of the mercurial paintings of Leonora Carrington. “Communion” and “First Star” and “Snow Globe” and “Trinkets” in “Psychic Marmalade” (from my book The Green Monk) were written around…

  • Hermit Kingdom (the first 8 pages)

    (Art: Hieronymus Bosch. From Garden of Earthly Delights.

  • The Street of Lamps

    In Madrid there is a street called the street of lamps. It is called the street of lamps because they sell many lamps. It is also a street with cold floor cafe with sawdust and old medieval style damp alleyways with flowerpots on the balconies. I sat there, in the cafe, after wandering the street…

  • DESPERATE LITERATURE READING MADRID

    A wee performance at Desperate Literature Bookshop. Madrid. 14th April 2017.

  • GOOGLE TRANSLATE

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