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PAMPHLET

Dream Dust

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Marcus Silcock

£8.99

£14.00

RRP £12.00

ISBN 978-1-916938-84-7

Marcus Silcock’s Dream Dust is a surreal-absurd tapestry of fragmented memories, cultural observations, and existential explorations. Through vivid, kaleidoscopic prose poems, Silcock crafts a world where the boundaries between the ordinary and extraordinary dissolve, illuminating life’s absurdities and fleeting beauty. Moving seamlessly from the intimate to the universal, this collection engages with themes of identity, displacement, and human connection, all with a sharp wit and a dreamlike sensibility. Silcock’s mastery of surreal imagery and rhythmic language offers a deeply evocative journey through the spaces between reality and reverie.

PRAISE FOR DREAM DUST

In the grand tradition of prose poems, Marcus Silcock’s delightful Dream Dust is surreal, for sure, but in a way that complements rather than covers up the truth. Personal recollections and strong narrative undertones lie just below the bright, windy surface. These charming fictions take place all over the world but their subject is always what it looks like to be fully human, to be fully present, wherever you happen…

— Matthew Rohrer

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Silcock (formerly Slease) has made his home in Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom – experiences that inform his surreal-absurd travel writing. He co-edits surreal-absurd for Mercurius magazine. His poetry has been translated into Turkish, Slovakian, Polish, and Danish. He is the author of Never Mind the Beasts (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), The Green Monk (Boiler House Press), and Play Yr Kardz Right (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), among…

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