London launch of the new collection "Hotel Petroleum' -
Poetry Society in Covent Garden.
Joined by the wonderful @BetaRish and Victoria Spires.
Tickets here.
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As a farewell to Pep Guardiola, my translation of the poem he read his teams before 'El Clásico' matches by his favoured Catalan poet Miquel Martà I Pol...
'Ara mateix' or 'Right now'
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Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes is structured as a journey in three movements, Arrival, Occupancy, and Departure, through a world of expat dislocation, geopolitical emergency, and the absurdist textures of late-capitalist life in the Middle East and beyond
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ALT Book cover for Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is white, with the title in bold dark grey serif type and the author name beneath it. Six white pillows are arranged in three rows of two across the cover, each slightly crumpled or creased; one pillow in the middle row bears a small pink stain. The overall effect is clinical and plain.
To celebrate #WorldBookDay here's the cover reveal and pre-ordering for Hotel Petroleum.
Check it out here. Check in June 30th.
"Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe."
Tom Stoppard
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Many thanks to @PoetrySociety for running this amazing competition for almost five decades. Respect to the other winners and the writers of all 21,000 poems entered.
Today we publish the final instalment of @fiddesmark’ Spring Journal.
It has been a pleasure — and an honour — to share this remarkable poetic witness to events unfolding in the Middle East. #love#peace#harmony#humility#humanity