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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 Pe

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 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 Pe

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 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 Pe

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



SALTED SLUG



your words stung,
and hung
me upside down, inside out,
to watch you
swan turned shrew-
hairbrush out all memory and meaning,
from those fresco pictures on the wet plaster ceiling-
that my Michelangelo took years to paint,
in glorious colours, now flaked and full of hate.

the lights of our pleiades went out,
with no new songs to sing and talk about-
suspended there
inside sobs of solitude and infinite despair-
like soluble syllables of barbiturates
in exhaust fumes of apology and regrets.

you left me prone-
to hear deaths symphony alone,
split and splattered, opened on the floor,
repenting for nothing, evermore-
like a salted slug,
curdled and curled up on the rug-
to melt away
while you spoon and my colours fade to grey.

the heart of truth-
intact in youth,
fractures into fronds of lies and trust,
destined to become a hollow husk-
but i found myself again in hopes congealing pools
and left the field of fools
to someone else-
and put her finished book back on its shelf.



SILHOUETTES OF LOVE AND LUST



i love to watch the chocolate
slowly melt
between your lips
of silky liquid felt,
then lick and lap
soft suck sips
in rhythm with your hips,
making such moments of motion
plough tidal waves in your ocean
as each surge of storm
throbs to be born
until the stone and dust
of autumn yellow moon
casts silhouettes of love and lust
that burst and bloom
through every love soaked scented night
shuttered from politics so cocooned
in plutocracies of blight.



THE NAKEDNESS OF TRUTH



everywhere i go,
you know
me.
talking to you,
and below
you,
slowly-
spring flows into summer
inside, out and under
this waterfall.

sat drying, on slabs of linen rocks,
splashing coloured words, that fall
like pointillated dots
on cast off oppositions:
in those hats and shoes and basket of flowers,
we change positions-
and in the gap, where nature and culture impose like towers,
self artifice is dressed-
but the nakedness
of truth is ours.

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.

Strider’s 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 and 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 27/29/31/32/33/34/35; Poems For A Liminal Age Anthology; In The Trenches Poetry Anthology; Blue Lines Literary Journal, Spring 2015; Murmur Journal, April 2015; PunksWritePoemsPress-Rogue Poetry; 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; Coda Crab Books-Anthology-Peace:Give It A Chance; Clockwork Gnome:Quantum Fairy Tales; Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts, May 2015 Issue and Don’t Be Afraid: Anthology To Seamus Heaney.







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Delighted to have 6 poems in Volume 1, Issue 1 issue of Syzygy Poetry Journal https://syzygymaidenprosodus.wordpres...

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Delighted to have a poem and be with Poet Friends in the first issue of Panoplyzine http://panoplyzine.com/issue-1-august...

http://panoplyzine.com/issue-1-august-2015/

Delighted to have 6 poems in A New Ulster Issue 35. Thankye Editor Amos Greig. Congratulations everyone!

Anu issue 35 / A New Ulster
The August issue of A New Ulster featuring the works of Strider Marcus Jones, Michael McAloran, Matthew Duggan, Alison Grayhurst, Pijush Kanti Deb, John Doyle, Steve Klepetar, Peter O’Neill, Mel Waldman, Rachel Sutcliffe and EV Greig.

Thrilled to have a poem in Deep Water Literary Journal 2015 – Issue 2 – August http://www.deepwaterliterary.com/poet...

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/stridermarcusj...). 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
By Ingrid Hall,

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

Death, a topic that has the ability to stimulate the most creative and thought-provoking written pieces. Testament to this is Our Day of Passing which is formed from an eclectic mix of short stories, poems, fictions and essays. With contributions from more than 30 talented writers across the globe, this anthology provides a fascinating interpretation of an event that comes to us all…eventuallyMore