Description: Website of Surreal-Absurd Prose Poet Marcus Silcock (Slease)
ABOUT BLOG CONTACT MUSIC PERFORMANCES PRESS SELECTED WRITING BOOKS PRESS When I read a Marcus Slease poem I am reminded that the world is made up of billions of parts, each with their own soul, each with a great ability to illuminate the sacred while also misbehaving. Slease is a poet who reminds us the wildness of life is not something we can control or even fight against but rather something we should witness and honour. Matthew Dickman, author of Husbandry
In actually seeking out those poets creating exciting, original, genuinely evolutionary work, we find many cannot be tied to one single nation – they are migratory, multi-lingual – pan-European if not pan-global. Marcus Slease fits this archetype more than most. By birth he stands as the first Northern Irish poet to feature in our series. However by experience he is a poet of England, America, Poland, Italy, Turkey…too. Unsurprisingly he is an adroit and worldly writer, defined by his ability to remain elas
Steven J. Fowler, author of Come and See the Songs of Strange Days