Never Mind the Beasts

Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

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Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Silcock has made his home in such places as Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom – experiences that inform his surreal-absurd stories.

Tag: Turkey

  • The Magic Unicorn

    The unicorn is magic. I dreamed of unicorns in Istanbul. It is very ancient. The personal fork was invented by the Byzantines. Then our teeth changed. We developed the overbite. We bite off more than we can chew. This is a prose poem about the golden horn of Turkey. Also Byzantines. But really unicorns. Here…

  • HALF WAY HOUSE

    KARAMAN, TURKEY. 2010 https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/half-way-house

  • 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!!!

  • some of my poem plays in So and So magazine

    very very happy to be included in this issue . . .check it out . . some cool poetry in there . . so and so magazine