Marcus Slease
Southbank (South London)
Poorly paid
laborers
break
up ships for
salvage
the deft
se-
duction
caution
tapes
the
veined
white
marble
colours
an uncool
composition
a lyrical
morpheme
a water
edged
city
a play
of endless
grids
Marcus Slease was born in Portadown, N. Ireland in 1974. He is the author of Godzenie (Blazevox Books) and This is the Motherfucking Remix (Scantily Clad Press). As a member of The Lucifer Poetics Group, he has participated in reading tours in North Carolina, Washington DC, Brooklyn, Ithaca, Atlanta and Philadelphia. He has also performed his work at the La Langoustine Est Morte reading series and the Openned Reading series in London. In March 2009, he co-edited a special issue of Past Simple on innovative British and Irish poetry (www.pastsimple.org). Currently, he teaches literacy to refugees and asylum seekers in London.You can check out his poetry, critical writing, personal musings and multimedia projects at: www.marcusslease.blogspot.com