Marcus John

MARCUS JOHN (112 xtra B)

Marcus John, also known by some, or many, as (the Scrutineer of) Splodge, and more recently as Duzzit, an evolutional spin on Splodge, is a British-born, but Tasmanian based performance poet, writer and artist.

His unique and instantly recognisable space and breath, word and noise, thought and emotion filled poems, with their unconventional physical structure, leave the tools of timing, poise and mental structure open to interpretation. Written to perform – written for him to perform – (in a way) to prepare himself for their performance – to control their performance, and himself within their performance. Written to be recited to the plants and the sky and the ears of one or all present or not. A four-dimensional style and thought process that when witnessed on stage will never fail to impress and entertain any with a taste for the dynamic and the deftly harnessed insane, and one that can and will, in its printed form, test a reader’s boundaries with the jolty and undulating written representation of the spectrum of phonetics that is the velvet smooth but booming voice of Marcus John.