NOMADIC TRAVEL WRITING
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The Crustacean Period: A Journey Through My 1990s
Long ago, in my crustacean period, I worked at Chevron. Gorging on beef jerky and graveyard radio. This was the mid 1990s. The world, of course, was very different. I… Read more.
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Navigating January Blues: the head and the heart
Happy Monday! January is not an easy month. Post-Christmas. Winter for many. February even more so. My head is spinning. Some lack of sleep. Too many thoughts of what’s next.… Read more.
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‘Dream Dust’: Surreal-absurd Travel Stories
Hurrah!! I have a new book coming in March 2025 from Broken Sleep Books in the U.K. Broken Sleep makes very fine books. Super happy and grateful. It is called… Read more.
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Exploring Travel Through Prose Poetry
I am super chuffed to have a new prose poem in issue 2 of Strings literary magazine. Written during the summer of 2024. I found inspiration in reading various translations… Read more.
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TRAIN TO BRIGHTON
I used to write on trains. I wrote a whole book of train rides. It is called Rides. You can buy it here. It is maybe my favourite book. Here… Read more.
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“My muse is not a horse” Kylie Minogue reads Nick Cave letter to MTV
EXACTLY!!!! FREAKING MEASUREMENTS ARE EVERYWHERE (EDUCATION, THE ARTS, CORPORATE CULTURE!!) HOLY SHIT!! WE NEED MORE HOLY SHIT!! 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… Read more.
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Deers | Trippy Gum
This duo from Madrid makes me happy. Like The Raincoats. I love The Raincoats! Read more.
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BIG HAPPY BALL
BIG BALLS OF HAPPY ENERGY AND DEVASTATOR BEER. SPANISH FORK UTAH. DOCKLANDS EAST LONDON. UVF CHILDHOOD. PORTADOWN. EXPANDING UNIVERSE. NOTHINGNESS. Read more.
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TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE
NEW POEM THINKING ABOUT HRABAL AND TIME LIVING IN POLAND. WRITTEN WED 7TH MAY 2014. Read more.
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BLOG ALMOST AT 175,000
thanks for reading, glancing, clicking, stumbling upon etc etc etc. itr’s a noisy world on the internet. and irl life too. but even more on the internet. the internet is… Read more.
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Le Tigre – TKO
this makes me happy Read more.
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Filip Marinovich
LOVE THIS GUYS WORK! YES! WOLFMAN LIBRARIAN! Read more.
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ME THE TERRIBLE
directed by JOSEPHINE DECKER Read more.
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we are all people
Enemies: Voice art – Dylan Nyoukis + Ben Morris + SJ Fowler Read more.
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Enemies at the Hardy Tree gallery – Opening night: SJ Fowler
biodegradable priceless jelly poems Read more.
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Enemies at the Hardy Tree gallery – Opening night: David Kelly
crazy ass saintly video Read more.
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Opening night: Ben Morris & Marcus Slease
Enemies at the Hardy Tree gallery!!! FUN NIGHT LAST NIGHT!!! Read more.
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Daniel Johnston – Life in vain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Johnston Read more.
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interview over at Everest Magazine
nomadic travel . . james joyce . . transplanted Irishness . . Americaness. . . and so on . . . http://everestonline.tumblr.com/post/53433193690/marcus-slease-interview Read more.
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from Milk and Honey
http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=3281 Read more.
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Chips for the Poor – I Am A Warrior – Busker’s Bus – Tramlines 2012
I AM A WARRIOR . . GO CHIPS . . FOR THE POOR . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Urawlof0oPo Read more.
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Reggie Watts
http://embed.ted.com/talks/reggie_watts_disorients_you_in_the_most_entertaining_way.html Read more.
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YOU GAVE ME YOUR ADDERALL
YOU GAVE ME YOUR ADDERALL + fiction by RL Goldberg http://housefirebooks.com/you-gave-me-your-adderall-fiction-rl-goldberg/ Read more.
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Mu Dream So Window from Poor Claudia
my chapbook based on experiences living in South Korea in 2006. Mu Dream So Window. Available from Poor Claudia. Limited edition of 150. Order here: http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php Read more.
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The House of Zabka
if you like visuals and other such things visit my other blog The House of Zabka www.marcusslease.tumblr.com Read more.
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Grzegorz Wroblewski in Poems and Paintings
Grzegorz Wroblewki poems and paintings on Wojtek Wilczyk blog: http://www.hiperrealizm.blogspot.dk/2013/01/w-hodzie-krotkim-pobytom.html (painting: Grzegorz Wroblewski: Deep Blue Adventures) Read more.
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BERTOLT BRECHT THE CHILD WHO DIDN’T WANT TO WASH
http://atlantapoetsgroup.blogspot.co.uk/ Read more.
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TRANSMISSION 1. CHRISTMAS EVE. KATOWICE POLAND
My body ballooned in the bathtub. My scrotum was a magical sea creature. I watched it bob before annointing myself with oils. Then I ate a plate of bigos. No… Read more.
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how to waste your lunch hour
how to waste your lunch hour by Jennifer Omega http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11662 Read more.
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chips and curry
in honour of my brother’s birthday today. He died unexpectedly six months ago. Heroin overdose in Spanish Fork Utah. Miss him a shitload. He would have turned 30 today. We… 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… Read more.
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keep this bag away from children
lovin this . . . got a bit of everything . . rubbin me in all the right wrong ways . . . check it check it check it .… Read more.
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to fiction . . .
switched to writing short stories the last couple of months . . . . interlinking short stories . . . I’ve written four of them . . . the short… Read more.
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two new poems over at Establishment Magazine
http://knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/establishmentmag.html Read more.
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Ariana Reines’s Erotic Soul
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.4/b_k_fischer_ariana_reines_coeur_de_lion_mercury_poetry.php Read more.
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Off to Zakopane
Must clean my muddy boots. Leave tomorrow. . Been working on flash fiction and short stories from travel experiences. Slowly getting back to poetry. Think these Polish mountains with my… Read more.
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come on over . .
check out the new minimalist blog: The New Never Mind the Beasts – – – – think I will keep posting here though . . . Read more.
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poems from the Fertility Show in Spork
Another nice publication from Spork publications. Poems from my manuscript The Fertility Show. Written while riding the London tube on my daily commute. Thank you so much to the fine… Read more.
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reading this saturday in east London
come on out if you around. Some fun collaborations happenin . . it’s The Camarade Project Edition 3. I am reading some collaborative work with Richard Barrett. Quite a line… Read more.
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Michael Zand and Hafez Shirazi
Persian poet Hafez Shirazi’s ghazal reworked by the fab Michael Zand. In super slow mo. The NY School is there too. Check it out: http://soundcloud.com/michael-zand/before-bitterness Read more.
Never Mind the Beasts 