POETRY PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, REVIEWS 2015
Honoured to have 4 poems in A New Ulster Voices for Peace Anthology December 2015http://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_present_voices_for_peace
Thrilled to have 6 of my poems in Issue 39 of A New Ulster. Thankye to Editor, Amos Greig http://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_issue_39/1
http://www.deepwaterliterary.com/home/4582555292 Delighted to have 3 of my poems accepted for the 2016-Issue 1 of Deep Water Literary Journal.
https://thecurlymindblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/page/17/Congratulations Reuben Woolley on publishing the first issue of The Curly Mind. Brilliant work from some amazing poets and thankye for publishing two of my poems in this issue.
Delighted to have 3 poems published by Antarctica Journal http://antarcticajournal.com/poem-low-vaulted-ceilings-by-strider-marcus-jones/
POEM – LOW VAULTED CEILINGS (BY STRIDER MARCUS JONES)
within those man stone walls
promoting their god
bringing us to him
i told the priest-
you tell us to be content
with poverty
while you live in this big house
throwing us scraps
begged from money lenders.
this is not what Jesus
asked his disciples to do.
this is not what he died for.
he said live amongst us
and share what they have.
the priest,
red with rage,
oppressive and oppressed-
pulled my mam aside
made her shrink in his stare
weep in his words
walk me in our sins
from his dark-damp house of angels.
outside
in feral sunshine
i pointed to grinning gargoyles
chasing chastened shadows
back down primitive paths-
to a cellar flat,
bare bulb dangling
prison beam probing
baptised flesh
and mam tipped tears
soaking into straw mattresses
sucking up cold from the flagstone floor
woodworms eating a Van Gogh table
where six mouths sat
sharing stale bread and cold beans
with whiskered skirting board mice.
years later,
i left Dedalus in Dublin
in the pages of a book
to his epiphany
and Jesuit suit of guilt-
while i quenched
my glistening fruit
in street light ladies-
drenched in smokey curling
dancing clouds
and stories from voices
bouncing off low vaulted ceilings
caressing human in darkness.
Delighted to have 5 poems in Issue 37 of A New Ulster/Anu http://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_issue_37
Delighted to have a poem in Calliope Magazine, Anniversary Issue, Volume 2 Issue 10.
Delighted to have a poem in The Lampeter Review Issue 12 http://lampeter-review.com/issue-12/
Chuffed to have my poem Come And See in Long Exposure Magazine http://longexposuremagazine.com/2015/08/07/come-and-see-a-new-poem-by-marcus-jones/
Come and See: A New Poem by Marcus Jones
Come And See by Strider Marcus Jones
you don’t have to be extreme
to be content,
other forces feed
this show-
they build on what has been
and mingle with consent,
then roam the rivers we invent-
using nature and nurture’s seed
to make it grow.
unshade your grey, reclusive hours
and play your made, profusive flowers
all the way:
don’t let regret upset your dream-
it’s all it’s light has been
and make what it empowers
from today.
but hark at me!
not knowing
what i’m sowing
day to day
deliberately-
and yet, i know it’s coming,
comes from going
out of me-
what i don’t make, i borrow-
come and see.
Bio: Strider Marcus Jones is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford/Hinckley, England, with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1. He is a maverick, moving between forests, mountains and cities, playing his saxophone and clarinet in warm solitude. His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies to date.
Thankye to Quantum Fairy Tales for publishing my poem Knots In Strings in Issue 2, Summer 2015 http://quantumfairytales.com/
Knots in Strings
so what
if knots
in strings
bring an end to things
that were.
i can undo her
tapestry
make it gone
and move what measures on
the raft of be.
found in mound and moat
elements made unmade
sink and float
convex and concave
funnel inside wave.
spiny gorse
not in bloom
sits inside a horse
to be taken in, fate from giving
creates a living tomb.
Delighted to have one of my poems in this anthology alongside fine poets such as Richard Skinner, Dr. Aprilia Zank, Selkirk Ayres, Linda Black, Nick Cooke, Charlotte Gann, Tania Hershman, Wendy Klein, Alison Lock, John McCullough, Alwyn Marriage, Mario Petrucci & Michaela Ridgway. http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/publications/liminal-age/index.html
http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/publications/liminal-age/index.html
http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/publications/liminal-age/contributors.html
Poems for a Liminal Age is an anthology published by SPM Publications in support of Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Poems for a Liminal Age offers a view of the way a certain group of people at a certain time in their planet’s history see their lives and the world they live in. The poems, taken together, make for fascinating if not comfortable reading. Many present an impression of bleakness in situations of confusion, loneliness, sickness, mediocrity and boredom. There is a sense of waste, of goodness being squandered, of corruption, brutality and loss. Other poems, however, evoke a sense of becoming, a feeling for nostalgia, beauty, trust and friendship, an impression of longing and the possibility of vision.
Editor: Mandy Pannett
Publication Date: 24/8/2015
ISBN: 978-0-9927055-6-5
244 pages
Delighted to have 2 poems in The Angry Manifesto Propaganda / Middle – East Issue 3.0
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With Drew McNaughton, Peter Burnett, Simon Leake, John Caulfield, Alisa Velaj, Scott Thomas Outlar, Mark Curtis, Matt Duggan, Diana Reed, Strider Marcus Jones, Bryn Fortey, Kathryn Baird, Shittu Fowara, G David Schwarz, Clive Oseman, Mitchell Grabois, Mike Roberts, Des Mannay, Fran Smith.
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Really chuffed to have 3 poems published in Dead Snakes Poetry Magazine http://deadsnakes.blogspot.co.uk/
Strider Marcus Jones- Three Poems
Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford/Hinckley, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1. He is a maverick, moving between forests, mountains and cities, playing his saxophone and clarinet in warm solitude.
Delighted to have 6 poems in Volume 1, Issue 1 issue of Syzygy Poetry Journal https://syzygymaidenprosodus.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/strider-marcus-jones/
Delighted to have a poem and be with Poet Friends in the first issue of Panoplyzine http://panoplyzine.com/issue-1-august-2015/
Delighted to have 6 poems in A New Ulster Issue 35. Thankye Editor Amos Greig. Congratulations everyone!
Thrilled to have a poem in Deep Water Literary Journal 2015 – Issue 2 – August http://www.deepwaterliterary.com/poetry-thetwosaltimbanque-15-2/4590153313
http://www.deepwaterliterary.com/poetry-thetwosaltimbanque-15-2/4590153313
Strider Marcus Jones
The Two Saltimbanques
when words don’t come easy
they make do with silence
and find something in nothing
to say to each other
when the absinthe runs out.
his glass and ego
are bigger than hers,
his elbows sharper,
stabbing into the table
and the chambers of her heart
cobalt clown
without a smile.
she looks away
with his misery behind her eyes
and sadness on her lips,
back into her curves
and the orange grove
summer of her dress
worn and blown by sepia time
where she painted
her cockus giganticus
lying down
naked
for her brush and skin,
mingling intimate scents
undoing and doing each other.
for some of us,
living back then
is more going forward
than living in now
and sitting here –
at this table,
with these glasses
standing empty of absinthe,
faces wanting hands
to be a bridge of words
and equal peace
as Guernica approaches.
Strider Marcus Jones is a poet, law graduate, and ex civil servant from Salford/Hinckley, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal, and metaphysical (http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1). He is a maverick, moving between forests, mountains and cities, playing his saxophone and clarinet in warm solitude. His poetry has been accepted for publication in 2015 by mgv2 Publishing Anthology; Earl Of Plaid Literary Journal 3rd Edition; Subterranean Blue Poetry Magazine; Deep Water Literary Journal, 2015-Issue 1; Kool Kids Press Poetry Journal; Page-A-Day Poetry Anthology 2015; Eccolinguistics Issue 3.2 January 2015; The Collapsed Lexicon Poetry Anthology 2015; Catweazle Magazine Issue 8; Life and Legends Magazine; The Stray Branch Literary Magazine; Amomancies Poetry Magazine; The Art Of Being Human Poetry Magazine; Cahaba River Literary Journal; East Coast Literary Review; Nightchaser Ink Publishing Anthology – Autumn Reign; Crack The Spine Literary Magazine; A New Ulster/Anu Issue 27/29/31/32; Poems For A Liminal Age Anthology; In The Trenches Poetry Anthology; Outburst Poetry Magazine; The Galway Review; The Honest Ulsterman Magazine; Writing Raw Poetry Magazine;The Lonely Crowd Magazine; Section8Magazine; Danse Macabre Literary Magazine; The Lampeter Review; and Don’t Be Afraid: Anthology To SeamusHeaney.
Delighted to have 5 poems in Our Day of Passing – An Anthology of Short Stories, Poems and Essays Compiled by Ingrid Hall and Franco Esposito
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/563817
Our Day of Passing – An Anthology of Short Stories, Poems and Essays Compiled by Ingrid Hall and Franco Esposito
Franco Esposito,
Dennis Higgins,
Virginia Wright,
Candida Spillard,
Valeri Beers,
Dada Vedaprajinananda,
Strider Marcus Jones,
Adam E. Morrison,
Allyson Lima,
D. B. Mauldin,
David A. Slater,
DavidKing2015,
Dee Thompson,
Don Illich,
Edward Meiman,
Eileen Hugo,
Emily Olson,
Joan McNerney,
J.S. Little,
Kin Asdi,
Madison Meadows,
Malobi Sinha,
Marianne Szlyk,
mark aspa,
Mark David McClure,
megan caito,
michael brookes,
michael burke,
Pijush Kanti Deb,
Prince Adewale Oreshade,
Rafeeq O. McGiveron,
robin reiss,
sasha kasoff,
stephanie buosi,
& Talia Haven
Really chuffed to have 4 poems published in Section 8 Magazine online 25/07/2015 http://www.section8magazine.com/fractals-of-clarity/
Delighted to have 5 poems in Section 8 Magazine, International Art & Literature online April 2015 http://www.section8magazine.com/sonnet-mondal/marcus-jones-2/
Delighted to have a poem in DRUNK MONKEYS MAGAZINE USA http://www.drunkmonkeys.us/poetry/2015/7/17/poets-in-the-backfield-by-strider-jones
Delighted to have a poem in DRYLAND MAGAZINE July 2015 Issue 1 http://drylandlit.org/summer2015_i1/
Walking Is Still Honest Press http://wishpoetrypress.net/tag/strider-marcus-jones/
The Pace of an Absinthe Paradox
OVIRI (The Savage – Paul Gauguin in Tahiti)
by Strider Marcus Jones
woman,
wearing the conscience of the world-
you make me want
less civilisation
and more meaning.
drinking absinthe together,
hand rolling and smoking cigars-
being is, what it really is-
fucking on palm leaves
under tropical rain.
beauty and syphilis happily cohabit,
painting your colours
on a parallel canvas
to exhibit in Paris
the paradox of you.
somewhere in your arms-
i forget my savage self,
inseminating womb
selected by pheromones
at the pace of evolution.
later. I vomited arsenic on the mountain and returned
to sup morphine. spread ointments on the sores, and ask:
where do we come from.
what are we.
where are we going.
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Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1. He is a maverick, moving between forests, mountains and cities, playing his saxophone and clarinet in warm solitude.
Mavericks by Strider Marcus Jones
Mavericks
you taste of cinnamon and fish
when you wish
to be romantic-
and the ciphers of our thoughts
make ringlets with their noughts
immersed in magic-
like mithril mail around me
stove dark forest, pink flesh sea
touchings tantric-
make reality and myths
converge in elven riffs
of music, so we dance it-
symbols to the scenes
of conflict, mavericks in dreams
that now sit-
listening to these pots and kettles
blackening on the fire
of rhetoric and murderous mettles-
before we both retire
to our own script.
Strider Marcus Jones is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1. He is a maverick, moving between forests, mountains and cities, playing his saxophone and clarinet…
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Delighted to have 6 Poems in A New Ulster/Anu Issue 34. Thankye Amos Greig, Editor.
Delighted to have 6 poems in the July 2015 issue of Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts, featuring work by Lisa Zou, D.R. Wagner, Rony Nair, Joseph Farley, Strider Marcus Jones, Cassandra Dallett, Jonathan Beale, Michael Ceraolo, Steve Klepetar, and Mark Blickley. Edited by Klaus J Gerken. It is now available at http://users.synapse.net/kgerken.
Delighted to have 3 poems in this anthology https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203085220890770&set=a.1027090376866.4650.1813501281&type=1&theater
Chuffed to have a poem in this edition of http://www.scribd.com/doc/270076047/Killer-Whale-Journal-Vol-3
Delighted to have a poem in Calliope Magazine, June 2015, Volume 2, Issue 6 http://www.calliopemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Calliope-june-2015.pdf
Chuffed to have a poem in North West Words Issue 4-Summer 2015 with other wonderful poets http://northwestwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/NORTH-WEST-WORDS-ISSUE-4-Summer-2015.pdf
Issue 33 of A New Ulster/Anu, Edited by Amos Greig, features wonderful poetic voices and five of my poems http://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_issue_33/1
Anu issue 33/ A New Ulster The June issue of Northern Ireland’s monthly literary and arts zine featuring the works of Byron Beynon, Felino A.Soriano, Peter O’Neill, Michael McAloran, John Saunders, Strider Marcus Jones, Amy Barry, Neil Ellman, Gary Beck and Joseph Patrick Dorrian
Being part of this ground breaking anthology And Agamemnon Dead is a proud and humbling experience for me http://mgv2publishing.blogspot.ie/…/and-agamemnon-dead…
And Agamemnon Dead
An Anthology of Early Twenty First Century Irish Poetry
Edited by Peter O’Neill & Walter Ruhlmann
Michael McAloran — Amos Greig — Dylan Brennan — Christine Murray — Arthur Broomfield — Peter O’ Neill — Rosita Sweetman — Michael J. Whelan — AnamarÃa Crowe Serrano — Peadar O’ Donoghue — Strider Marcus Jones — Colm Kearns — John Saunders — Kevin Higgins — Paul Casey — Sarah Brown Weitzman — Eithne Lannon — Maighread Medbh — Jack Grady — Bob Shakeshaft
“…there does indeed exist a whole world of writing out there which seems to live in a parallel universe alongside the more familiar voices which appear in the mainstream media, here in Ireland. There is nothing remarkable being said here, is it not always the case in every period, no matter what society? There will always be the majority, who somehow would appear to expound the specific values and criteria which that particular society holds up.” Peter O’Neill extract from the Preface
Really chuffed to have two poems in Volume 1 Issue 1 of Blue Lines Literary Journal, Spring 2015.
Delighted to have a poem in the April 2015, Volume 12 Number 1 Issue of Poetic Diversity Journal
Delighted to have a poem in this edition of https://www.scribd.com/doc/245376109/Killer-Whale-Journal-Vol-2
Delighted to have six of my poems in The May 2015 issue of Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts http://users.synapse.net/kgerken/
The May 2015 issue of Ygdrasil, featuring poetry by Katya de Becerra, Strider Marcus Jones, Alan Britt, Darren C. Demaree, Jonathan Beale, Ramesh Dohan, G David Schwarz, Charles Cicirella, Avonlea Fotheringham, and RD Larson, is now available athttp://users.synapse.net/kgerken
Delighted to have six of my poems published in Issue 32 of A New Ulster http://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_issue_32/1
Strider Marcus Jones – Five Poems
Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford/Hinckley, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1. He is a maverick, moving between forests, mountains and cities, playing his saxophone and clarinet in warm solitude.
In 2015, his poetry features in Crack The Spine Literary Magazine; A New Ulster/Anu Issue 29; Poems For A Liminal Age Anthology; In The Trenches Poetry Anthology; Outburst Poetry Magazine; The Galway Review; The Honest Ulsterman Magazine and The Lonely Crowd Magazine.
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OLD CAFE
a rest, from swinging bar
and animals in the abattoir-
to smoke in mental thinks
spoken holding cooling drinks.
counting out old coppers to be fed
in the set squares of blue and red
plastic table cloth-
just enough…
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Thankye Walter Ruhlmann for publishing my poem Anarchic Moss in mgv2 issue 80 http://mgversion2datura.blogspot.ie/…/mgv280-im-on-fire-041…
Thrilled to have a poem in Issue 2 of Sonic Boom Journal
http://www.outburstmagazine.com/poetry/outburst-magazine-15/ featuring the brilliant Fred Johnston Poet
This is a real treat. Some of these poets and their work makes me sit back in awe. Thankye Arthur Broomfield for including my little poem Compatible Combustions. http://www.outburstmagazine.com/poetry/outburst-magazine-15/
Anu issue 31/ A New Ulster 31 Issuu Northern Ireland’s monthly literary and arts magazine featuring the works of Strider Marcus Jones, Eamonn Stewart, Rachel Sutcliffe, Tom Pestacore, John Jack Byrne, Dr Mel Waldman, Noel King and Carl Scharwath
Two Poems by Strider Marcus Jones
I’M GETTING OLD NOW
i’m getting old now-
you know,
like that tree in the yard
with those thick cracks
in its skinbark
that tell you
the surface of its lived-in secrets.
my eyes,
have sunk too inward
in sleepless sockets
to playback images
of ghosts-
so make do with words
and hear the sounds
of my years in yourself.
childhood-
riding a rusty three-wheel bike
to shelled-out houses bombed in the blitz,
then zinging home zapped in mud
to wolf down chicken soup
over lumpy mashed potato for tea-
with bare feet sticking on cold kitchen lino
i shivered watching the candle burn down
racing to finish a book i found in a bin-
before Mam showed me her empty purse
and robbed the gas meter-
the twenty shillings
stained the red formica table
like pieces of the man’s brains
splattered all over the back seat
of his symbolic…
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Strider Marcus Jones – Five Poems
Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford/Hinckley, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1. He is a maverick, moving between forests, mountains and cities, playing his saxophone and clarinet in warm solitude.
In 2015, his poetry features in Crack The Spine Literary Magazine; A New Ulster/Anu Issue 29; Poems For A Liminal Age Anthology; In The Trenches Poetry Anthology; Outburst Poetry Magazine; The Galway Review; The Honest Ulsterman Magazine and The Lonely Crowd Magazine.
ANARCHIC MOSS
lo lover.
you give my blood this colour
to warm my marble heart
to beat for you-
and make me sing
like a minstrel lark
melodic tales that bring
you deep contentment too.
in here,
we are one sphere
changing the atmosphere
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