Marcus Slease
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Poems for Saints that are Poets as Saints
http://erkembode.com/2013/11/23/poems-for-saints-that-are-poets-as-saints/ THANK YOU SAINT ERKEMBODE! Read more
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POETRY AND SAINTS
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. Read more
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Erkembode exhibition: Marcus Slease – Bruce Andrews
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 Read more
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DAY OF THE DEAD UNDER THE VOLCANO IN MEXICO CITY
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 Read more
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saints and ghosts
http://erkembode.com/2013/11/18/photos-and-blab-from-saints-on-film/ a film on the back of my ghost costume Read more
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THE ATLAS REVIEW
super excited for my poem “The Big Egg” to appear in issue three of http://theatlasreview.com/ THANK YOU NATALIE EIBER Read more
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Camarade IV
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… Read more
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THE WHALE BROUGHT TO SCALE
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… Read more
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romantic pornography
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 Read more
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COOL VALLEY
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/ Read more
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SOME TRAIN POEMS IN SUMMERSTOCK MAGAZINE
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… Read more
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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… Read more
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FRANK O’ HARA AND DRAKE TOGETHER AT LAST
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 Read more
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THE BOOK OF FRANK POETRY COMIC
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… Read more
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good morning valencia
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 Read more
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GOOD MORNING KATOWICE
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… Read more
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THE FUTURE
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… Read more
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Homeless as a fly
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 Read more
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WHO GETS YOU WET?
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.… Read more
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a room of one’s own
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… Read more
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from Valencia to Katowice
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… Read more
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NORTHERN CREAM VIDEO
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 Read more
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Hardy Tree Gallery Final Night
Marcus Slease and SJ Fowler doing the jump. Hardy Tree Gallery final night of performances. Read more
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Gerald Goes on a Bushwalk (from We are Warriors Novella)
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… Read more
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tins tins blooming snatch
https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/tin-tins-blooming-snatch Enemies Project at Hardy Tree Gallery. London. Words: marcus slease. Music: Ben Morris. Read more
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A Gentle Metropolis Dirge
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… Read more
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watermelon island (chapter seventy three)
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… Read more
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MAPS (nomadic travel writing)
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… Read more
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watermelon island chapter seventy
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… Read more
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watermelon island chapter sixty four
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… Read more
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Watermelon Island chapters 2-4
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… Read more
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Two Flash Fictions (Spring Breakers, Ceremonial Garb) by Marcus Slease
(from Novella in progress: We Are Warriors) http://pressboardpress.com/2013/07/15/two-flash-fictions-spring-breakers-ceremonial-garb-by-marcus-slease/ Read more
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from Watermelon Island
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… Read more
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marcus slease and ben morris- hardy tree gallery opening night
outside The Hardy Tree. London. Near Kings Cross. 7th July 2013 Read more
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Acousmatic tin tin for The Enemies Project
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… Read more
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acousmatic tin tin
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.… Read more
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THE ENEMIES PROJECT
Excited for this next week. Working with the sound and outsider artist Ben Morris. YEAH!! Read more
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The House of Zabka
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 Read more
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Matthew Dickman reading at Centre for Creative Collaboration in London
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 Read more
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Mu So Dream Window (Matthew Dickman Marcus Slease and friends)
London. Centre for Creative Collaboration. 17th May 2013. Read more
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Matthew Dickman
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 Read more
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Electronic Voice Phenomena
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/ Read more
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Jeff Hilson pokes it right in and gives it a twist
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… Read more
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THE HOUSE OF ZABKA
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… Read more
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DIGITAL ROOTS READING SERIES
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/ Read more
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SPRUNG FORMAL 8
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,… Read more
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THE OUTSIDER ART OF DAVID KELLY
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/ Read more
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VOGUE FABRICS
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!! Read more
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BAVARIAN FAIRY TALES
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… Read more
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Punk Scene in Seoul
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 Read more
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THE WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU
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 Read more
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Eating Bulgogi memories are not the porno a poem for Marcus Slease on the occasion of his 39th birthday
Thanks SJ Fowler and David Kelly: http://erkembode.com/2013/04/07/for-marcus-slease/ (image: David Kelly) Read more
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Flarf/conceptualism in Manchester 2: Enemies of the North
Tom Jenks and Chris Mccabe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElDk44meVVU Read more
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three from Radioactive Moat
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 Read more
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Thank you Tin House & Matthew Dickman
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 Read more
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THE SHARK IS GETTING MARRIED
“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… Read more
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NEW ISSUE OF GESTURE
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 Read more
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THE OTHER ROOM MANCHESTER
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!! Read more
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Grzegorz Wroblewski Remix
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: Read more
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THE ARRANGEMENT AT MONKEYBICYCLE
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/ Read more
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One Minute Sculpture
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… Read more
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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 Read more
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HAVE U SEEN MY WHALE
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 .… Read more
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TRANSMISSION 2. CHRISTMAS EVE. KATOWICE POLAND
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… Read more
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gonna do a Mu (so) Dream (Window) reading in Manchester in Feb
If you are in Manchester . . come on out . . . 6th Feb 2013 . . . Read more
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A Mayan ride in the soft machine
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 Read more
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Mu (so) Dream (Window)
available for pre-order over here at Poor Claudia: http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php A informal reading of some of the poems: Read more
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how the strip club is a constellation & other poems By Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin
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!!! Read more
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FEELINGS POETRY READING (NORTH LONDON)
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… Read more
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Throb and Gristle on Exile TV
is it where I am going? or where I have gone? is where I am going far? Read more
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ipad edition of poets and artists
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 Read more
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Poor Claudia and Emily Pettit
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… Read more
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new issue of Rampike Magazine
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. .… Read more
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new rampike issue
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… Read more
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my new book available for pre-order
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,… Read more
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THE COWS SAID MU
My new flash fiction “The Cows Said Mu” now up at Thought Catalog: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-cows-said-mu/ Read more
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my flash fiction "Białooka" now featured at Metazen
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 Read more
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British poet SJ Fowler responds to strong tea
over at the fabulous ZimZalla . . check it out: steven fowler and strong tea Read more
