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talking about strawberries all the time
“No future. Reality in a nutshell and fear in a handful of dust. All dusty dream glitter.”
Here are a few new surreal-absurd prose poems. Written in summer 2023 while visiting Berlin and Wroclaw. Just published at talking about strawberries all the time.
Marcus Silcock, 3 surreal-absurd prose poems
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4 New Prose Poems from Wrocław and Berlin
4 new surreal-absurd prose poems, written during summer 2023 in Berlin and Wrocław , are now up at the magazine talking about strawberries all the time.
From immigration to Las Vegas from Northern Ireland (and a new Starsky and Hutch car) to anarchist squat flags and Turkish meze in Berlin.
The poems hopscotch between our two-fold consciousness. Outside/inside. Inside/outside.
They are…
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Surreal-Absurd Sampler Aaron Kent
This bi-weekly feature surreal-absurd at Mercurius is chalk-full of freshness. The latest, the poetry of Aaron Kent, features the belly of a dinosaur, avatar’s eating themselves from the inside, making the milk rounds, oceans of flame and the universe as a diamond. It is activism. The serious colliding with the absurd.
Check out the poems over here.
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Earth Research
Grzegorz Wróblewski’s “Earth Research” has just been published in SUBURBIA magazine in Poland.
Photography of various materials and textures. Close ups of what is often overlooked. Sticks, bark, crumbling stones.
Check out the photography over here
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The Life of a Tenement House
Hello folks. It is always something when the poetry of Grzegorz Wroblewski is translated into English.
Half Day Moon Press has just released The Life of a Tenement House by Grzegorz Wroblewski (in terrific translation from Polish to English by Adam Zdrodowski and Ben Borek). It is a poetry of a doomed and hopeful humanity trying to make the best of it. A poetry of awe and compassion and…
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The Language of Cabbage
Cabbage has been with me a long time. It is comfort. Whether German or Polish or Irish. There are lots of cabbages.
Also green. My favourite Garcia Lorca poems are green.
Here is a poem about cabbage. And the colour green. Recently published in Laurel Review.
Stay green!
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Hidden Peak Press
Hello friends. Do you feel overloaded? “Real Humans” is about movement breaks. So much stimulus. Content overload. Whatever you wanna call it. It features a wing chair. Here is a wee reading of the poem. Featured at Hidden Peak Press.
You can check out the prose poem over here
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Jeff Hilson Surreal-Absurd
“Is there anything more beautifully absurd than Kenneth Koch’s tiny play about the island of Madagascar breaking away from the African continent, or Hannah Weiner’s code of signals Romeo and Juliet? I’m currently writing a series of very short plays about fungi, as well as making a record of all the dreams I’ve been having since lockdown about British poets.”—Jeff Hilson
This week’s Mercurius…
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Chris Gutkind Surreal-Absurd
This week’s surreal-absurd at Mercurius is Chris Gutkind. Wild rides through layers of the surreal. There’s even Rilke! Here is one of the poems from the universe.
Read more of Chris Gutkind’s poems over here at Mercurius
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Eunoia Review
Three surreal-absurd poems by by Grzegorz Wróblewski, translation by Grzegorz Wróblewski and Marcus Silcock Slease. Over at Eunoia Review.
Check them out here:
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Singing Birds
Witnesses
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Kristin Bock Surreal-Absurd
Terrific end of the year 2023 sampler over at Mercurius. Some surreal-absurd poems of Kristin Bock.
Terrific end of the year 2023 sampler over at Mercurius. Some surreal-absurd poems of Kristin Bock. Glass Bikini and Cloisters. Definetely want to hold and read those ones.
Read the sampler and mini essay of Kristen Bock over here.
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HOBART
First time I have something published on Christmas Day. 3 surreal-absurd prose poems over at Hobart today. Thank you Jessica Almereyda for selecting and editing. A rarity to have an editor who pays such close attention to the work.
Here is one of them. Nostalgia/not nostalgia. Tis the season.
Two more surreal-absurd prose poems over here at Hobart
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Bruiser
I have 3 new prose poems in Bruiser. Sheep shearing in Warrington. The Fall Guy with Hamburger Helper and Lee Majors in a trailer park in Vallejo. Goshiwon with tiny television spitting out gameshows in Seoul. Plato’s cave in Utah. Enjoy the journeys.
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William Erikson Surreal-Absurd
Terrific surreal-absurd feature at Mercurius this week. It’s William Erikson.
There are many doozies. Here is part of one called BBC:
“A young man lifts his hands to the sun and the sun becomes / honey. He opens his mouth to the moon and the moon becomes / breath mints.”
Read more of William Erikson’s work over here
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A Thin Slice of Anxiety
“When you look up anti-poetry you are likely to run into the work of Nicanor Parra. Parra said something like “real seriousness” resides in the “comic.” We can of course go further. It is also cosmic. Like Parra, Grzegorz Wróblewski’s poetry is often anti-poetic and minimalist. Many of the speakers resemble visitors from another planet. There is a kind of unblinking reportage of the absurdity of…
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Granny Winegums
I have been finding new ways forward with various kinds of prose poetry. My new manuscript in progress, Dream Dust, is a mix of fables, serial poetry, microfictions, flash non-fiction. Maybe I’ll throw in a few flash plays.
Here is a fable story/prose poem. It is about Granny Winegums. American flop houses, bog butter on wheat toast, the Giant’s Causeway. It is partly true. Partly fiction.
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Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
“Living is a language of hunger
I want to make love to a man
No not a man exactly but I want to
Make love to something extremely hairy . . .”
This week’s surreal absurd sample of Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi will tingle yr pineal.
Head on over here to read more: tingletingle
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