Mark Fiddes

Definite author headshot for next collection. (Montblanc allowing.)

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Catch up with my interview with @fiddes.bsky.social & much more in Dave's latest digest. Lots about performance and page poetry, poetry criticism, by the looks of it... looking forward to getting stuck in

📚 New: review of Hotel Petroleum+ interview with @fiddes.bsky.social victoriaspires.substack.com "Poetry can be the wake-up call not to outsource our curiosity and experience but to relish the lucidity of the present moment."

This morning I woke up in Kafka’s House, as a human.

Thank you for sending in shots of ‘Hotel Petroleum’ in its natural habitat. Dogs, Dante, Pianos, Robots. More please.

Stumbled upon this wonderful trio yesterday evening in Lascuarre church, Aragon. Ad Lucem playing Victoria and Monteverdi led by countertenor and local boy Hugo Bolivar.

Last month’s writing whereabouts…

Cinderland Sometimes you wake in your jacked cityto the Earth grinding its teeth and you weepat how raw the dawn has become. Today the clocks go forward and so do we.Forest conflagrations that were visible from spacewill cease as will the burning of bears like witches. Atolls that opened their…

“Not a big fan of free verse, but I do make exceptions…”

Revealing interview with Will Harris and a review of ‘Hotel Petroleum’ inside…

Paying respects to Gaudí on the centenary of his death in the place he was born, Reus. Also home to the world’s finest vermouths.

Great timing for summer reading. Big savings on breakthrough poetry titles - @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

👀 - glad to add to my tbr pile new work from @fiddes.bsky.social & @jakeareynolds.bsky.social - and my own pamphlet Vital Capacity also still available from the excellent @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !

So far this year from the brilliant @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social bookshop I have bought Mirko Boncaldo’s Subverses, @leiabutler.bsky.social’s Tear and Share @fiddes.bsky.social’s Hotel Petroleum and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s Mountebank. All heartily recommended

The surrealist palette of Tarragona by night.

Today on our Substack: an interview with Mark Fiddes on the release of Hotel Petroleum. We talk about the new collection, growing up in England and life across the Middle East and Catalonia. open.substack.com/pub/themadri... @fiddes.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #poetry

Review of last night’s Hotel Petroleum launch @poetrysociety.org.uk

Great fun launching Hotel Petroleum last night @poetrysociety.org.uk with wondrous readings from @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @betarish.bsky.social

Last few FREE tickets for the Poetry Society launch of Hotel Petroleum tomorrow night…https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/hotel-petroleum-book-launch/

Wonderful morning and great open mic session. Thank you, Ver poets.

‘THE WILD PACIFIC OF ITS HEART’ i.m. the radiant David Hockney (first published in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social now installed at ‘Hotel Petroleum’)

Also included - interview on new collection ‘Hotel Petroleum’ launching later this month.

Hotel Petroleum. Check-in for pre-orders today.

Some seasonal adjustments It must be springtimebecause the fumigator in his operatic maskhas returned to the ornamental lake. He trails silver cloudsalong the shoreline to kill the tiger mosquitoswho come back hungrier every year. Out here, something happens in your blood.You lose your sense of…

Celebrating World Book Day with the cover reveal/pre-ordering of Hotel Petroleum. Check it out now. Check in June 30th. “Hotel rooms inhabit another moral universe.” Tom Stoppard www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Keats Shelley Poetry Prize announced. Congrats to winner @pascalepetit.bsky.social and thanks to judge @notjustdancing.bsky.social Here’s my runner up poem ‘Some Seasonal Adjustments’ keats-shelley.org/prize_entrie...

Congratulations to @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of this year’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval’ keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats... #keats #poetry #shelley #KSMA

Year of the Crayfish After that, they started eating everythingin the name of God or rights or self-determinationor the sanctity of their eggs.They repeated the story on TV news with a mapcharting the key waterways and obstructions.You could see the concrete rimed on their lips,and fragments of…

Many thanks to @poetrysociety.org.uk for running this amazing competition for nearly five decades.

Final Day of Spring Journal In the Gulf. Plastic bags and sprinklers.

Day 13 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Kingfishers and databanks.

Day 12 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Flame trees and fiestas.

Day 11 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Weak tea and speeches.

Day 10 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Orations and ovations.

Day 9 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Sky experts and Follywood.

Day 8 of Spring Journal. Caravanserai and mothers’ soap.

Day 7 of Spring Journal. Useless bees and The Clash.

Day 6. Spring Journal from the Gulf conflict. The naming of winds.

Day 5 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Red onions and ‘Go Bags’

Day 4 of Spring Journal from The Gulf: Dignity and curtains.

Day 2: the first alerts and Dido Queen of Carthage.

Mark Fiddes continues his eyewitness account of war coming to the Middle East @fiddes.bsky.social #war #trump #iran #dubai #journal #poetry #witness themadridreview.com/f/spring-jou...

Starting today, Spring Journal by Mark Fiddes. A personal view from Dubai at recent events. #dubai #Iran #USA #trump #poetry

Join us at the Poetic Heart today ‘Connecting Humanity’ with poets in 10 different languages - from Uzbek and Japanese to Hindi, Arabic and Slovakian, even English. Scan here. 17.00 GST, 14.00 CET, 08.00 EST.

As the blood runs down his Playboy face Traffic gridlocks on the BR-116 into São Paulo and a burger box flies out of a passenger window. Two wood pigeons cool in the concrete shade of a brutalist carpark. An Italian waiter in Soho writes his phone number on a bill, flourishing the crossbar on his…

Another effortlessly poised and insightful @berlinlit.bsky.social with cows, paradises, aeronauts and my poem ‘Ontology’. Set aside a quiet hour this weekend and enjoy.