Polish Poetry
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Poland is for Lovers
It’s been an epic journey from Barcelona through France and Germany to the mountains of Poland. Currently in the oldest spa town in Poland called Cieplice. It’s been around since 1281. Lushing out in the green, I wrote a prose poem on the fly. It’s called The Green Ticket. It is part of my new… Read more
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The Life of a Tenement House
Half Day Moon Press has just released The Life of a Tenement House by Grzegorz Wroblewski (in terrific translation). It is a poetry of a doomed and hopeful humanity trying to make the best of it. A poetry of awe and compassion and surreal-absurd gritty reality. 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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ON A TRAIN TO EXETER SITTING BACKWARDS
A poem about David Cameron, Shoplifting at Whole Foods, Hyde Park, Jackals, KGB, Pussy Riot, The Raincoats, Hush Puppy, a homeless hamster, and a bathtub. From my book nomadic surrealist book Rides. Translated into Polish for Polish magazine Elewator. Thanks Adam Zdrodowski. 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
Never Mind the Beasts 