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http://erkembode.com/2013/11/23/poems-for-saints-that-are-poets-as-saints/ THANK YOU SAINT ERKEMBODE!
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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.
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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
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with SJ Fowler and Holly Pester. part of the enemies project. FAB FAB FAB COLLABORATION ALL THE WAY IN MEXICO CITY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNO5qmGPOQ
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http://erkembode.com/2013/11/18/photos-and-blab-from-saints-on-film/ a film on the back of my ghost costume
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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
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POEM WRITTEN TODAY AND READ INTO WEBCAM. Contrasts with my writing 2000-2005. And writing 2014-2019. It is fun to change. My life! Your life! Whose life is it anyway? I am interested in reconciling art and life (it is impossible). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qOb4mRX5PI
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super excited for my poem “The Big Egg” to appear in issue three of http://theatlasreview.com/ THANK YOU NATALIE EIBER
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vine.co/v/hpFmUm9M07h thanks Erkembode
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Mass collab happenin in London today. Gonna be reading some of my train poems. Forwards and backwards. Collab with Claire Potter. Yeah. Go London. Go Rich Mix. Go UK Poets! It’s gonna explode! http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/camarade-poetry-festival/ Camarade IV – October 26th 2013 2pm to 10pm at the Rich Mix arts centre The Camarade poetry festival is…
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Poems written while living in South Korea. Or shortly after. Or much later. But inspired or recollected in tranquility, or not, a few years later. In either case, these are my nomadic surrealist poems from South Korea. They are called Mu (dream) so (window). Available from Poor Claudia (from Portland, OR). Clark Coolidge and Philip…
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These poems are train rides around the U.K. They also deal with love & romantic pornography. They are from my manuscript in progress called Rides. https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/from-my-heart-is-shuffled-it
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Poem trying to deal with my brothers unexpected death a little over a year ago from overdose. “Cool Valley” http://www.thebakerypoetry.com/cool-valley/
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http://www.thebakerypoetry.com/
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HAPPY TO BE IN THE NEW VLAK MAG WITH MY POETRY COMIC COLLAB WITH TIM ATKINS. LOTS OF GREAT STUFF IN THERE. Vlak is a nice avant garde art magazine from Prague. You can check it out over here: http://vlakmagazine2.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/vlak-4/
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Some of my train poems now published in the Summerstock Magazine. Riding trains forwards and backwards around the U.K. Thank you Elizabeth Guthrie!!! It is part of my manuscript Rides. Many more train rides to come. Forwards and backwards around the U.K. Check it out: http://www.summerstockjournal.com/2013/09/marcus-slease.html Livestock Editions is pleased as huckleberry pie to…
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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…
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FRANK O’ HARA AND DRAKE, TOGETHER AT LAST! http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/09/10/frank_o_hara_and_drake_mashup_poetry_and_pop_music_beautifully_put_together.html?utm_source=Poetry+Sept+11%2C+2013&utm_campaign=Poetry+September+11&utm_medium=email
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Cut random images from a random film on my hard drive. The film turned out to be THX 1138 by George Lucas. I forwarded the movie nine times with the slidebar. I created a film still from each forward. Nine frames. Then flipped through the Book of Frank by CA Conrad. Copied seven random lines. Flipped…
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(A dream. Katowice, Poland. 25th August 2013)Marcus Slease
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I drank horchata and looked at the gargoyles for three days. On the fourth day I re-discovered my curly locks.Valencia is a very fine city with a park down the middle. The park used to be a river. There are many bridges. AUGUST 13TH 2013. VALENCIA, SPAIN.marcus slease
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In ING bank Katowice. Hoping to poo soon in Poland. There is a lot of pork in Poland . Some chicken. Very little beef. Sometimes fish. I am not really a meat man. I am fish man. A fish meat man. Ewa is trying to close her account from two years ago. They take over…
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In downtown Katowice, on Mariacka Street, we met a woman on stilts. We were in a pub called Kato. Kato had well designed street art inside its plywood walls. It was a make-shift pub. I drank my cold yellow beer. It was very fizzy and sweet and I held it by the handle. The Polish…
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Homeless as a fly you lactated on my tongue – — – ——— a pillow by night and a sack by day now my petals begin to fall (from Mu (so) Dream (window). Written while living in South Korea, 2006. Published by Poor Claudia in 2012: http://www.poorclaudia.org/print_slease.php
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Last Christmas in Katowice, Poland I met a girl named Megi Szu and Lola in a Polish pub called Presja. They are Polish but they used English names. Or half English. Szu = shoe Megi = Maggie —————————— maggie shoe Lola = Lola We sat on an old couch with plastic flapping in the wind.…
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last time I was in Katowice it was Christmas. I sat in a little room with a giant snowman and lots of Russian dolls and wrote a flash fiction about Polish beavers. It was a story about my impressions of Poland and globalization. The Poles can do Gangnam style like no other. The story is…
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In old stomping grounds of Katowice, Poland after 10 days in Spain. Valencia, Barcelona, Alicante. I will never visit Alicante again. It was a wasteland of thousands upon thousands of tourists, bright lights, consuming frenzy, over priced bottles of water. Everyone looking for a quick Euro. Lots of ripping off. Ripping off might be ok…
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story cut up from William Burroughs cut up novel Soft Machine and lyrics of Mark E Smith. Images cut from various films and made into stills and cartoons. Narrative added to provide some cohesion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ym-Q0sPW8c story published in Sprung Formal http://issuu.com/sprungformal/docs/lilsprung2013
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Marcus Slease and SJ Fowler doing the jump. Hardy Tree Gallery final night of performances.
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from We are Warriors (novella of flash fictions in progress): GERALD GOES ON A BUSHWALK Gerald wasn’t sure what to do now that the Spring Breakers were gone. A heavy slanted rain was lashing his forehead so he ducked under the cover of some bushes. He sat cross legged and began thinking about various ways…
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https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/tin-tins-blooming-snatch Enemies Project at Hardy Tree Gallery. London. Words: marcus slease. Music: Ben Morris.
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Ben Morris & Marcus Slease have realised the aberrant underbelly of the gentle metropolis dirge in an acoustamatic tin tin of the city, bringing the offbeat poetics and grinding sonic beauty of London into three dimensions, falling off a wall. Part of The Enemies Project. Hardy Tree Gallery. London. These are now on the wall…
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CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE Lucy and her guru sitting in a tree. K-i-ss-ing. First comes love then comes marriage then comes a baby in a baby carriage. That’s the song that was going through Lucy’s mind as she looking into the eyes of Sleepy Eyes. She wanted to look away but she couldn’t. She was locked…
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A very rough draft of some work for my ongoing nomadic travel novel: The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. It will undergo massive collaging and editing later. MAPS Russians to the right; Indians to the left. I go with the Indians. I follow the sign for Hind Street Community Centre. Outside my…
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CHAPTER SEVENTY – What is this prince? (asked Sleepy Eyes) – He’s the one I am supposed to marry. (said Lucy) – Is that what you want? – I don’t know. (said Lucy looking directly into the eyes of Sleepy Eyes) – I want you do something for me Lucy. – OK. – I want…
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CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR Don’t let the sun go down on your grievance. Don’t let the sun go down on your grievance. The goths were singing a little ditty together. It was to bring them all together. The Easter Bunny had collected the words from a boy named Daniel Johnston. He bought this Mr. Johnston’s tape…
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CHAPTER TWO The players were hired by the king. They were made to take an oath not to swear in any of their plays. They crossed their hearts. They also promised to watch out for a certain man. They were given a picture. Her father was not stupid. The picture might not be useful. People…
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(from Novella in progress: We Are Warriors) http://pressboardpress.com/2013/07/15/two-flash-fictions-spring-breakers-ceremonial-garb-by-marcus-slease/
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CHAPER ONE The mirror was steamed up so she wiped it with her hand. She saw someone in the mirror. The person in the mirror was a man. A man with a beard. A long gray beard. She grabbed a green hood and covered her head. She tied a scarf around her face and went…
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outside The Hardy Tree. London. Near Kings Cross. 7th July 2013
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Making Chapbook Acousmatic Tin Tin Updated about an hour ago PublicFriendsFriends except acquaintancesOnly meCustomClose FriendseveryoneSee all lists…poets 13poets 12poets 3poets 11poets 9poets 8poets 7poets 5poets 16poets 15poets 14poets 2poets 6poets 10poets 4poets 1Hurricane High School (Utah)Rancho High SchoolRichmond, The American International University in LondonMETUMETUBilkent UniversityRichmond, The American International University in LondonLondon, United Kingdom AreaWestern Washington UniversityThe…
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My girlfriend Ewa is making chapbooks for The Enemies Project. A collaboration with sound artist and painter Ben Morris. This is stage one mock up. Playing with stamps and watercolurs. There will be a green lizard stamp on cover. Cover is special Indian paper from east London (brick lane). Event is at Hardy Tree Gallery.…
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Excited for this next week. Working with the sound and outsider artist Ben Morris. YEAH!!
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gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous book. Thank you Deathless Press. It’s a postmodern Polish fairy tale. Part one. A nomadic surrealism. A few still for sale here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/130911578/the-house-of-zabka-by-marcus-slease?ref=v1_other_1
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Matthew Dickman at Centre for Creative Collaboration 17th May 2013. London. Organised by Ahren Warner. Matthew flung free collector item chapbooks into the crowd at the end. Matthew is a wild man. A very wild man. I say hell yeah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEoHdWCPGY
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London. Centre for Creative Collaboration. 17th May 2013.
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reading with Matthew Dickman tomorrow at Centre for Creative Collaboration. Super excited. Love that fella. And his poetry too. Will be good night methinks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34E0t1tBN-w
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Electronic Voice Phenomena is a new experimental literature, performance and music show that feeds on the corpse of paranormal pseudo-science. UK tour coming up: http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/on-tour/
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Marcus Slease reading Jeff Hilson from _In The Assarts_ NY School poetry meets the London school of medieval ass arts. Kraftwerk. Buster Keaton. Ted Berrigan. Francis Picabia & the sheriff of Nottingham. Jimmy “great charming girl” Schuyler. The ladies in waiting have left their nuts in a medieval thicket. Jeff Hilson pokes it right in…
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My first book of fiction now available from Deathless Press. It’s a Polish postmodern fairy tale. “The House of Zabka” by Marcus Slease A Polish folk tale meets Kurt Vonnegut’s surreal science fiction. A visionary, oracular original fairy tale that follows a butcher’s daughter to the deepest, darkest, strangest depths of the forest. A playful…
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I’m up at DIGITAL ROOTS READING SERIES . . video reading Joanne Kyger and my mythological story about Polish beavers. It’s called I LOVE BEAVERS: http://digitalrootsrs.com/
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DO YOU LIKE BEAVERS? DO YOU LIKE POLAND? I HAVE A FLASH FICTION IN LIL’ SPRUNG FORMAL/ISSUE 8. IT IS SHORT. IT IS ABOUT BEAVERS, POLAND, WALNUT FIRE, GANGNAM STYLE, AND OTHER POLISH TRADITIONS . . FAB ISSUE. HAPPY TO BE IN THERE . . Featuring work by: Ben Fama, Abby Carr, Sarah Jean Alexander,…
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it is all of us in this spooky life . . THE OUTSIDER ART OF DAVID KELLY http://erkembode.com/2013/04/30/camarade-mimih-part-1-enemies-of-the-south/
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LEMURICKS. MARCUS SLEASE AND JEFF HILSON. BRISTOL POETRY FESTIVAL. ARNOLFINI GALLERY. A CAMARADE EVENT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr9AP_KpU-s
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VOGUE FABRICS. LONDON. DALSTON. FEELINGS READING SERIES. READING FROM MU (SO) DREAM (WINDOW) (POOR CLAUDIA 2013) http://www.poorclaudia.org/print_slease.php THANK YOU SOPHIE ROBINSON!!
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Here’s one called “The Pink Slip.” There’s a boy named Jack and another one they call Jill and a Pole called Zofia and a Bavarian named Frank and a man from Utah called Andy. They go to Regensburg in Bavaria. They drink lots of beer. They say cock and pussy. They meet a Bavarian wild…
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Punk scene. Hongdae, South Korea early 2006. It was a fun scene. Not as commercialised as London. Felt innocent. More innocent. Or maybe I was innocent. I wanna get innocent again.Book to accompany this:Mu (so) Dream (Window):http://www.poorclaudia.org/print_slease.php
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I READ SOME JOANNE KYGER FOR RADIO SHOW IN LONDON. I HAD A NICE CHAT WITH STEVE WASSERMAN OVER HERE ON THIS FAB PODCAST CALLED READ ME SOMETHING YOU LOVE THANK YOU STEVE WASSERMAN I HEART JOANNE KYGER READING AND CONVERSATION OVER HERE: http://readmesomethingyoulove.com/?p=1384
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Thanks SJ Fowler and David Kelly: http://erkembode.com/2013/04/07/for-marcus-slease/ (image: David Kelly)
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Tom Jenks and Chris Mccabe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElDk44meVVU
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Three poems in Radioactive Moat. Part of my ongoing manuscript Rides. It used to be called The Circle Line (for the poems written while riding the underground trains in London). But now Rides has poems written on trains all around the U.K. A nomadic surrealism written on trains. http://www.radioactivemoat.com/marcus-slease.html
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A huge thanks to Matthew Dickman (poetry editor of Tin House) for kind words about Mu (Dream) So (Window): http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/22915/what-were-reading-8.html
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VERY VERY HAPPY TO BE IN NAP WITH SUCH AMAZING AWESOME STELLAR ROCKIN FINE WRITERS. THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT FOP ME . .. THIS IS TO BE ALIVE . . I WANT TO BE ALIVE . . . . SCRATCH AND SNIFF . . IT SMELLS OOOOOHHH SO GOOD . . NAP . .…
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“A whiskey breath man does not like your English so you speak in Ponglish. Ponglish is sexy. When you speak Ponglish you must hide your erection or squeeze your legs to prevent the juice from running down your legs. You may excuse yourself to the side of the building and smoke smoke smoke away your…
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the new Gesture is finally here :) :) :) here are the contributors: M.g. Martin, Steve Roggenbuck, Daniel Alexander, Anhvu Buchanan, Susan Calvillo, Kati Mertz, Kelly Schirmann, Michael Inscoe, Robert Vaughan,Yume Kim, Mat Cochran (lead singer of the band Coma Cinema), Marcus Slease (…) (DOWNLOAD PDF): http://thegorillapress.com/sites/default/files/gesture_4_.pdf (FLASH) http://thegorillapress.com/sites/default/files/gesture_4_.swf(FIND IT ON GORILLAPRESS WEBSITE) http://thegorillapress.com/node/7
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READING A WEEK FROM TODAY WED 6TH FEB IN MANCHESTER. AT THE OTHER ROOM READING SERIES. READING FROM SOON TO BE RELEASED NEW BOOK FROM POOR CLAUDIA Mu (so) Dream (window) http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php COME ON OUT IF YOU ARE IN MANCHESTER!!
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I did a reading of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s poems from A Marzipan Factory with some music. Also our performance together in London with some of my nomadic surrealist poems. The recordings are now available at PennSound A Marzipan Factory is available over here:
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MY SHORT STORY “THE ARRANGEMENT” NOW OVER AT MONKEYBICYCLE. BORA WINDS. OPERA. A RED HOODED GIRL BIRD FROM LJUBLJANA. DOGGIE PARK PICK UPS. A SEXY PIPE SMOKING BUTCHER FROM TRIESTE: http://monkeybicycle.net/the-arrangement/
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but mostly he carried an astronaut he carried an astronaut like greasy bacon over a rump roast like an ox that plows and plows and plows that sexes his cherries and sends him up with moon humps and sucker punches a sucker for a suckling diddling his axis with her helmet and her little white…
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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
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up at Banango Street: http://banangostreet.com/issue3/marcus-slease/
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http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/who-gets-you-wet/
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http://husmw5.tumblr.com/marcus_slease happy to be in great company . . Socrates Adams-Florou Grace Millard Ananta Prayitno Jean Hui Ng Beach Sloth Paige Gresty Marcus Slease Kevin Pinner Blare Coughlin Livia Franchini Wern Luk Christopher Scarborough Dianna Dragonetti Michael O’Brien Michael Hessel-Mial Kelly Schirmann Jmar Atienza Amelia Gillis Robert Schofield Michael Scarborough check out issue five .…
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or bodies made of smokeor a giant made of meat hearts ***** I want a floor like this laminated and shining everything in its right place even when it’s not ***** we are bathed in green lightsthe first star is still waitingto arriveto Katowice ***** I’m sitting in a little wooden roomtyping thisin a room…
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If you are in Manchester . . come on out . . . 6th Feb 2013 . . .
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If you are in London come on out. Will be reading some fucked up elfish mayan house of Zabka bizarro in honour of Mr. Burroughs. Tues Jan 15th 2013. Parasol Unit is the place: http://parasol-unit.org/on-beat
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available for pre-order over here at Poor Claudia: http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php A informal reading of some of the poems:
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http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/julia-tillinghast-akalin-how-the-strip-club/ She has spent a number of years, on and off, living in Istanbul, Turkey, and is Co-Translator of Dirty August, a selected poems of the experimental 20th-century Turkish poet Edip Cansever. This mades me very curious. I loved living in Turkey and exploring experimental Turkish poetry. Must find this Dirty August!!!
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If you are in London, check this reading out tomorrow. Jeff Hilson rocks my world. Amy De’Ath is cool too. The sad dj is cool. Lots of cool shit. Thursday 20:00 An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.Poetry:Amy De’AthMarianne MorrisSophie MayerJeff HilsonSamantha Walton!more tbc!Film:Liz RosenfeldSad Disco:DJ Dr Kemp Vogue Fabrics 66 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB…
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is it where I am going? or where I have gone? is where I am going far?
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video reading of “Regent Street” in new ipad edition of poets and artists. Happy to be in there. Thank you Didi Menendez. Maybe someday I’ll get an ipad. subscribe for free to the mag here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ipoetsartists/id586627484?mt=11
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Poor Claudia (doesn’t get any better) from Nick van Eck: Something beautiful about swinging! Feel like getting away from the holiday hustle and leaping mid-air into a white hot void of weightless language? Look at that. We’ve got four new poems from EMILY PETTIT.Emily Pettit’s the author of Goat in the Snow (Birds LLC). She’s also…
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happy for my work to be in great company. Peter Jaeger, Tim Atkins, Richard Parker, Amy De’Ath, Cathy Wagner, bill bissett, Sachiko Murakami and lots more . . My poem is “Song of the Open Road.” A creative translation of Walt Whitman. lots to explore . . Fantastic issue that opens up possibilities. .…
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happy for my work to be in great company. Peter Jaeger, Tim Atkins, Richard Parker, Amy De’Ath, Cathy Wagner, bill bissett, Sachiko Murakami and lots more . . My poem is “Song of the Open Road.” A creative translation of Walt Whitman. lots to explore . . Fantastic issue that opens up possibilities. . the…
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MY NEW BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW FROM POOR CLAUDIA. SUPER EXCITED. THEY MAKE SUPER HANDSOME HANDMADE LIMITED EDITIONS. It is called Mu (dream) So (Window). Part of my nomadic surrealist life project. No name but love, indeed, for Marcus Slease, in this exciting collection of small, surprising, lyrical poems which continue (very nicely,…
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http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/i-left-my-heart-in-sf/
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My new flash fiction “The Cows Said Mu” now up at Thought Catalog: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-cows-said-mu/
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Do you know Białooka? A Polish fairy tale. With a nod to Camus. Come meet her over here at Metazen: http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11167
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over at the fabulous ZimZalla . . check it out: steven fowler and strong tea
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