NOMADIC SURREALIST PUNK
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Flora and Fauna
My prose poem, “Flora and Fauna,” part of my nomadic surrealist novel The Dreamlife of Honey, the third in a trilogy, still in progress, just published at OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters. Based on experiences teaching English in Bielsko Biala, Poland. Many years ago. etc. Read more
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HOW TO RENEW YOURSELF WITH MINDFUL TRAVEL
Why do we travel? The weekend getaway. The summer and winter breaks. The islands and exotic locations. What are we looking for? The travel industry is one of the biggest on our planet. According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), the travel industry generated 7.6 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016. We are looking… Read more
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POEMS FROM HELLO TINY BIRD BRAIN IN POLISH ANTHOLOGY
Some of my poems from Hello Tiny Bird Brain (a chapbook from Knives, Forks, and Spoon Press in the U.K.) are now available in Polish. Translated by Adam Zdrodowski. These poems in Polish originally appeared in the Polish magazine Helikopter and are now published in Helikopter‘s terrific anthology of Polish poetry – Przewodnik Po Zaminowanym Terenie [A… Read more
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In Review: Grzegorz Wróblewski’s Zero Visibility
Nice review of Wróblewski’s Zero Visibility over at Asymptote Literary Journal. Another planet indeed. http://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2017/09/14/in-review-grzegorz-wroblewskis-zero-visibility/ Read more
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THE HERMIT AND THE EMPEROR
From my novel The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. Finally hope to complete it after seven years by the end of this summer. Maybe. The novel is nomadic life writing plus a kind of surrealism and absurdism. A new kind of travel writing. Read more
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ENGLISH TRIFLES
I have long admired the trifle. It is the crown jewel of English sweets. I often remember it at Christmas. I felt a bit of nostalgia for the trifle when I lived in America. My memories are often connected with Milton Keynes since that’s where we moved when we “immigrated” from Northern Ireland. I put… 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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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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copulating and happy with NY School Poetry
I just received Joe Brainard’s I Remember in the post today. I am sure many folks have read it. I am late to the game. It is a classic of conceptualism and NY School Poetry. I am sure the French writers have already been influenced by it. It seems NY School Poetry has much more… Read more
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new work in progress
Trieste when Joyce left here his Dublinwas complete occult bread on a platterspasmsin the inlet I let out a yawl in 23 accentsand my past lives left me what gets inthe eyes: a saucer of lightink smudge on the Victorian walls my pigeons oh my pigeonswe hover over lost pointselse hoover up the antics we… Read more
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New Amy De’Ath Broadside (grab it hot!)
Head’s up! It’s the first Crater of 2010, and it’s a grand little broadside from Amy De’Ath: Andromeda / The World Works for Me. There’s a drawing by her too and it’s fantastic. £4 [£5 ROW]. Letterpressed &c. &c. Praise for Amy: “Amy De’Ath is the new fire for mortals. She peoples space. She plays… Read more
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Group Identity
Group identification seems to get a bad name (NY School, Language Poetry etc.) Why is that? Originality/indvidualism/ego? Of course classification enhances and limits the work of the artist. Over and over again I hear muscians getting mad with labels (not alt country just good music). Don’t we have to classify and label in order to… Read more
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Headspace
FIFA is playing downstairs on the PS 1. I need distraction sometimes. Leisure has such bad connotations for me. I see well to do English chaps playing badminton. Quite a tightrope. Labor and leisure. Looking at independent secondary schools for a teaching gig. I like teaching all in all. I need headspace for writing poetry.… Read more
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Cortez the killer
Graded 44 essays for my existentialism class (a freshman seminar). The essays were on free will (since existentialism hinges on complete free will and responsibility. You can’t be responsible for actions/choices unless you have free will). Most of the students believed they had very limited free will. The few that believed in free will took… Read more
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Columbia Poetry Review
Nice little surprise in the mail today. Columbia Poetry Review accepted a poem. I wonder how many journals are named after animals versus how many are named after food (milk and octopus for example). By far, the so and so review has to be the most popular. Does the word review make a journal seem… Read more
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The Main Stream
Can a good movie be mainstream? Can good music be mainstream? Can a rap artist sample country music (or is she/he wishy washy and mixing their politics). Country music= mostly white folks who are often rural. Rap music=mostly black folk who are often urban. (I am well aware this isn’t always the case. But don’t… Read more
