Poetry
Sometime during his fourteenth year, he was bed-ridden for three months, with pleurisy. During that time he read the complete Shakespeare, filling up several notebooks with quotations that appealed to him and with comments about the characters, stunned by the language. He then read the Bible, the complete John Keats and Wilfred Owen. His mother loved classical music, and so the days of those months and the hours of reading were also filled with Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms to name a few, on what was then the BBC Third programme. Something happened during those months and Marcus knew then that he would spend much if not all of his life writing. He has.
Starting with High School and University magazines, and an honours degree in English Literature, and writing poems to be read accompanied by jazz, Marcus moved through two years in USA on a Writing Scholarship, and followed that with two years on a private grant, completing translations of Baudelaire and two original plays (all of which has since been lost). That was followed by sixteen years of waiting, for the time when Marcus could do justice to what life had shown to him and the talents he happened to have.
In the mid-1980s, the energy to write, the sureness of what to write about and where in himself to write from finally fell in place and he has been writing and teaching ever since. Marcus' first novel Out of Nowhere was finished in 1991 (available from i-Universe), and was followed by a five part work of prose-poetry called Note for Note - Another Pentateuch, started in 1995 and completed in 2008 and two books of which have already been published by i-Universe.
For several years Marcus has been collecting material for songs and actually began writing them down in 2006, since when he has already completed eight Volumes with one hundred songs in each. Some of them are songs, some are poems, some are lyrics waiting for melodies, but all of them are written to be at least accompanied by music and dance, and this is why he has called them Sopolyrimu. Marcus is constantly amazed by the steadiness of the flow. The third volume was published by i-Universe in January 2011.
Sometime during his fourteenth year, he was bed-ridden for three months, with pleurisy. During that time he read the complete Shakespeare, filling up several notebooks with quotations that appealed to him and with comments about the characters, stunned by the language. He then read the Bible, the complete John Keats and Wilfred Owen. His mother loved classical music, and so the days of those months and the hours of reading were also filled with Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms to name a few, on what was then the BBC Third programme. Something happened during those months and Marcus knew then that he would spend much if not all of his life writing. He has.
Starting with High School and University magazines, and an honours degree in English Literature, and writing poems to be read accompanied by jazz, Marcus moved through two years in USA on a Writing Scholarship, and followed that with two years on a private grant, completing translations of Baudelaire and two original plays (all of which has since been lost). That was followed by sixteen years of waiting, for the time when Marcus could do justice to what life had shown to him and the talents he happened to have.
In the mid-1980s, the energy to write, the sureness of what to write about and where in himself to write from finally fell in place and he has been writing and teaching ever since. Marcus' first novel Out of Nowhere was finished in 1991 (available from i-Universe), and was followed by a five part work of prose-poetry called Note for Note - Another Pentateuch, started in 1995 and completed in 2008 and two books of which have already been published by i-Universe.
For several years Marcus has been collecting material for songs and actually began writing them down in 2006, since when he has already completed eight Volumes with one hundred songs in each. Some of them are songs, some are poems, some are lyrics waiting for melodies, but all of them are written to be at least accompanied by music and dance, and this is why he has called them Sopolyrimu. Marcus is constantly amazed by the steadiness of the flow. The third volume was published by i-Universe in January 2011.