Marcus Slease
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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/ Read more
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SHOEBURYNESS
“it was called shoeburyness it was very English the signs said don’t walk on beach you might blow up or die we didn’t die” Read more
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PLACEBO FOR PAIN
POEM FOR THURSDAY 30 APRIL 2015. THE SUN. THE CLOUDS. THE ZOLOFT LAMICTAL PROZAC COCKTAIL. THEY COME. THEY GO. Read more
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BATHTUB 28
THE POLISH DONUT SPECIAL. WRITTEN ON POLISH NATIONAL DONUT DAY. IN THE BATHTUB. THEY ARE CALLED Pączki. THEY ARE VERY GOOD. Read more
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THE BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL
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 . . Read more
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BATHTUB 42
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. Read more
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Wu-Wei Fashion Mag
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). http://wuweifashion.com/ Read more
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The Enemies project: Marcus Slease & Tomas Mielcarek
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… Read more
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circus on ice
Catania Sicily beach of debris. A frozen circus. Working on a prose poem for my manuscript The Green Monk about dolls from Saturn. Read more
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TOAD SUCK REVIEW
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/ Read more
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BATHTUB 68
MORE STORIES FROM THE BATHTUB. THIS IS BATHTUB 68. I AM ALMOST AT 100 PAGES. THIS MIGHT BE MY LIFE EPIC. Read more
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THE BIG EGG
THE BIG EGG “on the streets / of Spanish Fork / women/ come sailing / for the Chinese/ buffet” Read more
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BATHTUB 25
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. Read more
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Tomaž Šalamun
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/ Read more
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GLITTERMOB XMAS SPECIAL
NEW ISSUE OF GLITTERMOB. GOT SOME LEGS< ONIONSHONKY TONKS> IN THE NEW ISSUE . . CHECK IT: http://www.glittermobmag.com/marcus-slease.html Read more
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MARGHERITA POETRY
//player.vimeo.com/video/115163175 BATHTUB 11 from marcus slease on Vimeo. MORE STORIES FROM THE BATHTUB IN POLAND . . Read more
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for Aaron Slease 15 December 2014
A tribute to my brother Aaron Slease it is very hard to not have him around. We were very close. We are still close. Read more
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THE BIG EGG
SOME POEMS FROM THE BIG EGG //player.vimeo.com/video/114644063 THE BIG EGG from marcus slease on Vimeo. Read more
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Animal Bodies at Sunset and Sunrise (remix 1)
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. Read more
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SMALL SELECTION OF ANIMAL ART POEMS FROM 2001-2014
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. Read more
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CHOIR OF YOUNG BELEIVERS
From my manuscript New Foam. Over at Right Hand Pointing: http://www.righthandpointing.net/#!80-marcus-slease/c1svv Read more
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MAP LITERARY
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… Read more
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Paddy’s Cure
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. Read more
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RIDES LAUNCH
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: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rides-Marcus-Slease/dp/1291923381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412958522&sr=8-1&keywords=rides+marcus+slease Read more
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KATOWICE POSTCARDS
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. Read more
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TOOTSIE ROLLS
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: http://www.gatehousepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Lighthouse-6-Autumn-2014-Online-Supplement.pdf the full meal of Lighthouse mag (with more poems) coming soon. A launch in South London too! Mighty good. Thanks Angus… Read more
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A DARK DREAMBOX OF ANOTHER KIND
https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/alfred-starr-hamilton-poemswav Read more
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The Papermill Playhouse
Alfred Starr Hamilton. One of my favourite American surrealists!!! Read more
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Tiny Creatures
TINY CREATURES From a novella in progress called Tiny Creatures. Lots of flash fictions moving into novela. Katowice, Poland 23rd August 2014. Read more
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MY SPECIAL MISSION
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. Read more
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THE CRANIUM IS A SPACE TRAVELER’S HELMET
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: RIDES … Read more
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RIDES
My new book is just out! YIPPPIEEE!! Started this in 2008 when I first came to London. Picked it up again in 2012 after coming back from living in Poland and Turkey. It was poems written at tube stops around London. Then poems written on the circle line in London. Finally it became poems written… Read more
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UPTIGHT POETRY FILM
GENTLEMEN(POETRY, MUSIC, FILM COLLABORATION FOR UPTIGHT)DIRECTOR: Graeme MaguireASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Sarah MaguirePOETRY: Marcus SleaseSOUNDS: Annie Gardiner of Hysterical InjurySTARRING: Rick Hambleton, Natalie Brown, Mo, Jamie LindsayTHANKS TO: The Cube, Scubaboy Inc, Floating Harbour Studios, Geneva Stopcheck it out://player.vimeo.com/video/100253149 GENTLEMEN – Short Film from Graeme Maguire on Vimeo. Read more
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A MEMOIR OF MAGICAL TRAVEL
FROM MY NOVEL IN PROGRESS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DON WHISKERS. THE COLLEGE DAYS OF SEARCHING FOR MYSTICAL TREASURES . . A RECORDING/READING OVER AT SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/from-never-mind-the-beasts Read more
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Tim Atkin’s reading from launch of his Petrarch
SJ Fowler organised it all. WOW! What a night!! And lots more poets reading on the night . . . check ’em out over at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om1Qq2Ekhhk&index=1&list=UUH-fLGyt8YZrtNctaU1OauQ Read more
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Holly Pester performing Tim Atkin’s Petrarch
Holly makes her own spin on Tim Atkin’s spin on Petrarch. Oh yeah! and many more readings over here: Read more
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Jeff Hilson reading at Tim Atkin’s launch
The awesome Jeff Hilson reading from Tim Atkin’s Petrarch: Read more
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Marcus Slease reading from Tim Atkin’s Petrarch
Crater 27: June 2014. Tim Atkins, Complete Petrarch.All of Petrarch translated / transfigured / transplanted by Tim Atkins – a hallucinogenic, euphoric striptease of a traductory odyssey. 550 odd pages of pure lyric gold. [Not letterpressed.] £16 + p&phttp://www.craterpress.co.uk/Lot’s of London poets reading from Tim Atkin’s Petrarch last Saturday. Terrific night!!! One of the best readings… Read more
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LIKEWISE FOLIO
Got some surrealist/fabulist prose poems written in Poland 2008 and 2012 in the new issue of Likewise Folio . Check it out at :http://likewisefolio.org/poet/marcus-slease Read more
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TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF MY BROTHER
It’s still hard and the world is a completely different place with loss of this size. We were so close growing up and then were reconnecting again after I left the U.S. and traveled the world for seven years in attempt to make new home. I’d made the circle. I was coming home. And I… Read more
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International Poetry and Fiction from Mexico City
Got some poems in the new issue of Ofi Press Magazine from Mexico City. Including one for my brother Aaron (“Piper Down”). Tomorrow he will have been gone for 2 years. It’s still hard!!! http://www.ofipress.com/sleasemarcus.htm Read more
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CABARET HRABAL
Reading a poem that engages with Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude and Closely Watched Trains. Part of my manuscript Play Yr Kardz Right. Next month at THE HORSE HOSPITAL. 3rd JULY. COME ON OUT!! GREAT LINE UP!! Read more
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RALPH HAWKINS "FIND THE BLACK SEA"
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MY BOOK RIDES (IN THE TRADITION OF TED BERRIGAN)
“I began writing train poems on the London tube in 2008-2009. I sat there scribbling into notebooks as the train went from one stop to the next.” I’m talkin about train poems & my process for writing Rides on H_ngm_n magazine today: http://h-ngm-n.tumblr.com/post/86997117895/this-poem-this-monster-marcus-slease It is partly inspired by Ted Berrigan’s Train Rides (picture below). Rides is… Read more
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UPTIGHT!
“We are two poets, Sarah Maguire (Bristol) and Marcus Slease (London) that to put it mildly are sick of traditional intellectual, stiff, PHD driven British poetry and feel obligated to do something …anything ….to make a change. “ CHECK OUT UPTIGHT! A NEW POETRY AND ARTS COMMUNITY BASED IN BRISTOL, UK AND LONDON, UK. OUR… Read more
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THE NEW H_NGM_N
SOME OF MY POEMS FROM MANUSCRIPT TRAIN RIDES. POEMS WRITTEN GOING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS ON TRAINS IN THE U.K. INSPIRED IN PART BY TED BERRIGAN’S TRAIN RIDES. CHECK IT OUT IN THE NEW H_NGM_N ISSUE 16. http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-sixteen/marcus-slease.html Read more
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SCHOOL OF FISH AT SPORK
MY POEM SCHOOL OF FISH IS OVER AT SPORK. YIPPPIEEE . . . http://sporkpress.com/ Read more
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POEMS IN WHICH
NEW POEMS IN WHICH ISSUE 5. A HEALTHY SPRINGING FROM OTHERWISE OVERALL STALE BRITISH POETRY (OR STALE MAGAZINES AND PRESSES OF BRITISH POETRY) GOT A POEM ABOUT STRING AND THE UNIVERSE AND MORMON MISSION MEMORIES OF TYING COMPANION TO BED POST TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL INTERFERING WITH BODY LUST SENSATIONS ETC. CHECK IT OUT HERE. THANK… Read more
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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… Read more
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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/ Read more
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MUNCHING ON DREAM DUST
(scraps from this weeks notebook) The giant city awake in the first warm breath of springtime. 5 days till 40th birthday. Moving into part time insomnia. Money worries. I have enough now but what about next month? The month after? What about the summer? * * * THE PAST- a new movie * * *… Read more
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ATLAS REVIEW 3
SUPER SUPER HAPPY!! IT IS A GOOD SATURDAY IN EAST LONDON. GOT MY COPY OF ATLAS REVIEW 3. AMONG ABSOLUTELY AMAZING COMPANY. BEST MAG I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG LONG TIME!!! SO MANY GREAT ARTISTS AND POETS!! THANK YOU ATLAS REVIEW. YOU WILL BE MY TUBE READING FOR THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO. AND… Read more
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Reading in old London Victorian toilet
Footsie Index #5 Richard BarrettMarcus SleaseRichard will be launching his new book ‘Free’ which is published by Blart Books. Tuesday 15th April 2014 STARTS @ 7PM Footsie Index #5 is at Artslav http://www.artslav.com/ Artslav is a restored Victorian public toilet located under the centre of Kennington Cross just by The Doghouse Pub. 180 Kennington LaneLondonSE11 4UZ Get there… Read more
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America
America (after Ginsberg) America I am putting my pursy lips to the wheel America go to bed dream new dream America none of this means anything America I’ve got your booty in my laundry bag America my potatoes are puffy, cloudy, sexy America I have a queer head a queer shoulder a queer toe a… Read more
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PETER ORLOVSKY’S "SECOND POEM"
FROM YUGEN ISSUE 4 PETER ORLOVSKY’S “SECOND POEM” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZstJLgAhy8 Read more
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South Korea 2006
a reading of Mu (dream) So (Window) on soundcloud. Seoul, South Korea 2006: https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/mu-dream-so-window Read more
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Penn Sound Page
GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI HAS A NEW PENN SOUND PAGE. YIPPIE!!! Mp3s of readings from London: Torriano reading series and Enemies project reading at Rich Mix. Also a reading I did of Grzegorz’s poetry set to some basic music I whipped together. Check it out: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Wroblewski.php Painting: Grzegorz Wróblewski The Post-Literate (R)Evolution Read more
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Awesome Polish poets in London!!!
Wrogowie – Feb sat 8th at the Rich Mix, London Wrogowie: February Sat 8th at the Rich Mix Arts Centre: 7pm doors. Free entry. http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/wrogowie-the-enemies-project-polish-poetry/ http://www.polishculture.org.uk/literature/events/news/article/wrogowie-the-enemies-project-2244.html Marcus Slease & Grzegorz Wróblewski Joanna Rzadowska & Francesca Lisette Ula Chowaniec & Amy Cutler Piotr Gwiazda & SJ Fowler Adam Zdrodowski & Philip Terry + Laura Elliott & Angus… Read more
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Tieryas Mini Reviews Spanish Fork by Marcus Slease
http://tieryas.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/tieryas-mini-reviews-spanish-fork-by-marcus-slease/ A NICE MINI REVIEW OF SPANISH FORK CHAPBOOK. THANK YOU TIERYAS!!! Read more
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Grzegorz Wroblewski Reading
Paintings by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Poems of Grzegorz Wroblewski translated by Agnieszka Pokojska and Adam Zdrodowski. Reading: Marcus Slease. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSv6LAHI0gY Read more
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WROGOWIE
The Enemies project presents some of the finest contemporary poets from Poland collaborating to read original works of avant garde / literary poetry with British contemporaries. Multiple pairs of poets will present work that is cross language, cross media and truly groundbreaking, evidencing the innovative potential of collaboration in poetry and the force of European… Read more
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SPANISH FORK CHAPBOOK
MY CHAPBOOK SPANISH FORK NOW AVAILABLE WITH COUNTRY MUSIC. DOWNLOAD FOR FREE . YOU DO NO NEED SPECIAL SPECTACLES TO READ IT!! THANK YOU SCOTT ABELS!!! CHECK IT http://countrymusicpoetry.org/media/Spanish_Fork.pdf Read more
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A LOVE SUPREME
HERE IS WEE ONLINE PERFORMANCE OF MY POEM A LOVE SUPREME. IT IS AN ATTEMPT AT COMPASSION. MEDITATION, DHARMA. ETC. WRITTEN AND PERFORMED IN EAST LONDON DOCKLANDS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jkzwZiQ_Z8 Read more
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What’s out there
(first take, draft, whatever . .) It’s one day from new years. We are getting to the end of 2013 and everyone is making lists. I haven’t made a list. If I made a list it would be a list of books I loved, or books I still haven’t read, but really I’m thinking about… Read more
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katowice day 1
christmas eve morning breakfast in poland: homemade pickled herring, lots of beautiful onions, soft warm bread, a coffee. a snowman with twenty five blinking lights. Read more
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PIPER DOWN
poem for my brother Aaron Slease (15th Dec 1982-7th June 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbOaoYLPmMc Read more
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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 Read more
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Marcus Slease Interview at The Volta
A BIG THANKS TO JIM GOAR FOR THE GREAT QUESTIONS. WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT. LIKE NY SCHOOL POETS AND PHILIP WHALEN, AND POOR CLAUDIA. ALSO ABOUT NOMADIC POETICS AND TRAVEL AND SURREALISM. INTERVIEW UP NOW AT THE VOLTA/CONVERSANT http://theconversant.org/?p=5588 Read more
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ON THE ROAD FROM CANTON OHIO AND EAST LONDON
Marcus Slease and John Estes. Over here. John Ashbery and Eileen Myles are in the conversation. Many others too. Canton, Ohio and East London. Check it out over here at Likestarlings: http://www.likestarlings.com/poems/marcus-slease-john-estes/#1 Read more
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saint mayer saint spit saint myles and saint tea
My reading at Hardy Tree in London on Saturday 23rd Nov 2013. pocket rubbings, aliens, mormons, boy scouts, a blooming tattoo, conversations with saints and work of Eileen Myles, Sister Spit, Michelle Tea, Bernadette Mayer and others from new ms in progress: ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION thank you Saint Erkembode! thank you SJ Fowler! Thank… Read more
