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ot home that collision of leather and cucumbers got a laugh and a surreal door was opened in my mind ian mcmillan terrific surreal absurd sampler at mercurius this week it s the verb s ian mcmillan some of his poetry reminds me of the playfulness of ron padgett one of my favourite poets check out ian mcmillan s surreal absurd sampler over here buffalo x8 may 6 2024 do you want to show your baby face to the world or wrap yourself in hair blankets i think you look better wrapped in hair blankets says eimear super happy to have my poem whirlpool in volume 3 of buffalo x 8 terrific issue check out volume 3 and my poem here talking about strawberries all the time april 12 2024 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 4 new prose poems from wrocław and berlin april 7 2024 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 reality in a nutshell and fear in a handful of dust they are all dusty dream glitter check out the new poems over here surreal absurd sampler aaron kent april 7 2024 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 earth research march 29 2024 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 the life of a tenement house march 9 2024 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 surreal absurd gritty reality it is available for free over here the language of cabbage march 1 2024 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 hidden peak press february 24 2024 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 jeff hilson surreal absurd february 19 2024 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 surreal absurd is jeff hilson the legend check out his new work over at mercurius chris gutkind surreal absurd january 24 2024 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 eunoia review january 3 2024 three surreal absurd poems by by grzegorz wróblewski translation by grzegorz wróblewski and marcus silcock slease over at eunoia review check them out here listen singing birds witnesses kristin bock surreal absurd december 28 2023 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 hobart december 25 2023 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 it will be the title of my new book of prose poems microfictions two more surreal absurd prose poems over here at hobart bruiser december 22 2023 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 check out the surreal absurd prose poems over here william erikson surreal absurd december 13 2023 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 a thin slice of anxiety december 7 2023 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 our existence it is sometimes terrible and sometimes humorous and often both i wrote a review of grzegorz wróblewski s dear beloved humans a selection of his poetry translated into english from the 1980s 2020s there are many strands in wróblewski s poetry i focused on the absurdist anti poetic realism also the absurdism thanks to cody sexton for publishing the review check out the review at a thin slice of anxiety granny winegums november 25 2023 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 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 kiik araki kawaguchi november 22 2023 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 the magic unicorn november 9 2023 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 is a prose poem about the unicorn from my manuscript in progress dream dust sin yong mok surreal absurd sampler november 6 2023 ghosts appear in many plays a long time ago the actor who played the ghost had to get rid of his body only his voice was left it must have been before someone wearing a white sheet took on the role of the ghost this week s surreal absurd sampler is sin yong mok translated from the korean by brother anthony check out his amazing work over here a very thin crack november 5 2023 a surreal absurd prose poem from my manuscript dream dust written while visiting southern utah this is called the narrows the green monk in slovak october 28 2023 a selection of my surreal absurd prose poems from the green monk has just been published in slovak in the magazine vertigo such beautiful book art nice to hold in the hand the poet vik shirley is also in there happy as larry julian stannard surreal absurd poems october 25 2023 peculiarity has its own poetic the everyday is full of the absurd ultimately the act of making strange is i believe a subversive one challenging commonsensical conservative reactionary values poets whose work i m fond of include giorgio caproni paul durcan and selima hill and i particularly like the work of leonora carrington julian stannard this week over at mercurius we present the surreal absurd poems of julian stannard check out the poems here natalie shaw surreal absurd sampler october 10 2023 they are magical boxes or very intricate paper pop ups or entire carved worlds waiting to be tipped out of a hollowed out bean each one has its own logic and necessariness natalie shaw this week s surreal absurd at mercurius magazine is natalie shaw check out her wild poems over here breakdancing at burger king october 7 2023 a prose poem from my new manuscript of prose poems in progress a follow up to the green monk boiler house press we like the cars the cars that go boom breakdancing at burger king exciting times from youthful adventures in vegas ailbhe darcy surreal absurd sampler september 26 2023 to write poetry at all might be to see what in the world is beautiful because it is absurd ailbhe darcy ailbhe darcy s surreal absurd sampler at mercurius is a doozy painterly visceral lobster claws robot cats a little machine demanding to be plugged in again flowers and bruises check out her surreal absurd sampler over here lee sumyeong surreal absurd sampler september 26 2023 this week at mercurius it is lee sumyeong translated by colin leemarshall in his 1924 surrealist manifesto andre breton wrote that swift is surrealist in malice sade is surrealist in sadism chateaubriand is surrealist in exoticism lee sumyeong might be described as being surrealist in the quotidian colin leemarshall check out lee sumyeong s poetry over here i really like lovers of poetry september 7 2023 beatnik cowboy that s the title of the magazine it s a grand title they recently published the title poem from grzegorz wróblewski s forthcoming collection of poetry in english i really like lovers of poetry the poems in the forthcoming collection were translated directly by grzegorz and myself read the poem over here six poems by grzegorz wróblewski september 3 2023 i ve known grzegorz since maybe 2007 that s a few years i ll never forget the trip to see him in copenhagen we have collaborated and read together with various projects in london and madrid some of the highlights of my writing life grzegorz is one of a kind yeah no doubt here are six minimalist poems by grzegorz wroblewski translated by grzegorz and myself terrific poems view them over here lesle lewis surreal absurd august 16 2023 it doesn t seem to me true to be one or the other i think of it as a spectrum and not a binary division of real from surreal or sense from nonsense i think of it as inclusive the surreal being part of the real the real as part of the surreal the sensical in nonsense and the nonsense in sense a new sense lesle lewis this week s surreal absurd sampler at mercurius is lesle lewis dizzying delights prose poems with sentences as composition structure irony and sincerity the big questions of life and consciousness the house is one sided and you re flat in it in the mouth of your pillows are teeth check out lesle s prose poems over here stroking spades august 8 2023 i ve finally found a stride wrong right paths since maybe 2019 now finding the way thru an ongoing nomadic surrealist journey that s what i ll call it also funk nomadic surrealist funk here is the first poem from the ongoing project tangling llamas on the tresses of the sun stroking spades by marcus silcock https on soundcloud com 41wt9 joyelle mcsweeney surreal absurd sampler july 23 2023 the tools we need for a reversal of fortunes are right in front of us easily to hand we must simply take up the weapons that harm us and reverse them thus the surrealist absurdist logics of reversal especially of scale but also of such elements as up and down big and little strong and weak cause and effect may must be reversed in the artwork releasing a scouring bolt that renders the work of art an engine against the almighty joyelle mcsweeney delighted to feature the war on heaven of joyelle mcsweeney at mercurius check it out over here betsey trotwood july 20 2023 great night at the betsey trotwood in london for mercurius magazine s surreal absurd feature our first live event with readings by vik shirley marcus silcock jane yeh and mark waldron here is a phone recording of my reading with poems from my books the green monk rides tangling llamas on the tresses of the sun a new book in progress marcus silcock at the betsey trotwood 15th july 2023 https on soundcloud com erjnt surreal absurd at the betsey trotwood july 6 2023 my first public reading since 2017 live at the betsey trotwood in london on 15th july happy as larry to read with some stellar poets vik shirley jane yeh mark waldron tickets are limited available over here at eventbrite for the price of a fancy muffin maybe register on eventbrite ahead of the reading here is a preview of my nomadic surrealist funk from my book rides 2014 if you are in london come hang with us music samples remixed from sun araw s ancient romans the caretaker s an empty bliss beyond this world and bracken slow release film sample the general 1926 buster keaton from puppy june 23 2023 it was only here for a short time the book puppy hope the dog puppy is here longer puppy love is short this is not puppy love here is a reading of the opening to puppy the book sinks into oblivion like everything on june 30th 2023 when the press closes its shop if you fancy words on paper it is over here here comes jerry june 20 2023 happy tuesday here are the leftovers from my book the green monk a poem about the wonder bread of jesus but really jerry his gold chain his hardness this was back in my days of vegas mid 1980s very tangy leftovers by marcus slease https on soundcloud com wjfv9 https on soundcloud com wjfv9 https on soundcloud com wjfv9 sawako nakayasu surreal absurd sampler june 9 2023 terrific surreal absurd sampler of sawako nakayasu s poems over at mercurius this week the poems are from some girls walk into the country they are from wave books at some point as if there was some kind of tipping point there seemed to be enough surreal aspects to the supposedly real world which made it simply a more honest way to try to reckon with said world sawako nakayasu check out 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