Marcus Slease

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Marcus Slease (born 1974) is a contemporary avant-garde Irish writer and performer from Portadown, Northern Ireland. He earned a B.A. in English from Weber State University, an M.A. degree from Western Washington University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Work

Slease's poetry has been described as "migratory, multi-lingual – pan-European if not pan-global." His first book, Godzenie, was published by BlazeVOX Books This collection draws "on his experiences in the Polish region of Silesia" and it is "part travelogue, part an exercise in cultural immersion." His other books are also concerned with travel, in particular a kind of nomadic poetics. The literary scholar, translator, and poet Piotr Gwiazda, in his review of Slease's poetry in Jacket 2, describes his poetry as refusing "the comforts of rootedness, stability, permanence. In doing so, he represents what the philosopher Rose Braidotti identifies as the model of nomadic subjectivity 'in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive.' ” His poetry celebrates "flexible identity and mobile imagination." In her interview with Marcus Slease for Entropy Magazine, the poet Laura Wetherington highlights the "sensuous, curious, cosmopolitan, and compassionate world-view" of Slease's poetry.

Slease has been involved with avant garde performance in both North Carolina, as a member of The Lucifer Poetics Group, and in London, where he participated in various performances for Steven J Fowler's Enemies Project and Maintenant series. He has performed his work at various festivals, art galleries, and venues around the world, such as The Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, The Prague Microfestival, Soundeye Festival in Cork, Ireland, The Carrboro Poetry Festival in North Carolina, and The British Library,,The Hardy Tree Gallery, Free Word Centre, and Rich Mix Centre in London.

His writing and performances have been commissioned by the Austrian Cultural Forum, Czech Centre London, The National Poetry Library, The October Gallery, Parasol Unit Foundation,and The European Review of Poetry, Books, and Culture.

In addition to performance and writing, Slease has also co-edited two editions of Jim Goar's magazine Past Simple with the Polish poet Grzegorz Wroblewski. Since 2012, Slease’s poetry has appeared in magazines including Poetry, Tin House, Poetry Wales, and Fence, among others. His poetry has been featured in the Best British Poetry series and the anthology Dear World and Everyone In It. His writing has also been translated into Polish and Danish. As of 2018, he has been living in Madrid, Spain.

Biblography

Books

The Green Monk (University of East Anglia/Boiler House Press, 2018, ISBN 9781911343486 Search this book on .)

The Spirit of the Bathtub (Apocalypse Party, 2018, ISBN 9780692092460 Search this book on . )

Play Yr Kardz Right (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017, ISBN 9781974551149 Search this book on .)

Rides (Bart Books, 2014,ISBN 9781291923384 Search this book on . )

Hello Tiny Bird Brain (Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press 2012, ISBN 9781907812583 Search this book on .)

Godzenie (BlazeVOX Books, 2006, ISBN 9781935402497 Search this book on .)

Anthologies

Best British Poetry (Salt Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9781784630300 Search this book on .)

Dear World & Everyone In It: new poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe Books, 2013, ISBN 9781852249496 Search this book on .)

Discography

Never Mind the Beasts

Collaborations

Slease has collaborated with various European poets for performances, such as the Slovakian poets Erik Simsik, at the Free Word Centre in London, and Mila Haugova at The Rich Mix, the British poets Tim Atkins, Steven J Fowler, and Jeff HIlson, the Polish poets Tomasz Mielcarek and Grzegorz Wroblewski, the British sound artist Ben Morris, and the Canadian conceptualist Peter Jaeger.His collaboration with the U.K. performance artist and musician Stephen Emmerson was released as an album entitled Never Mind the Beasts on Bandcamp.

External links

Never Mind the Beasts (author website)

Interview with author in Entropy Magazine

Interview with author in 3:AM Magazine

Work featured in Poetry Magazine/Poetry Foundation Chicago

Critical Review of poetry in Jacket2 Magazine

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