*Other Saints Are Available (Live Canon), The Chelsea Flower Show Massacre, The Rainbow Factory (Templar Poetry). Creative Director at large. #MDANT
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28 Jan 2023
*POET* officially top dream job.
While 'pilot' tops world ranking in Google Search
POET is the most desirable career in the Middle East. (Source: @remitly).
Time for a pay review, comrades.
@PoetrySociety @themothmagazine @magmapoetry @HarperS @ForwardPrizes
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Jun 13
'THE WILD PACIFIC OF ITS HEART' i.m. the radiant David Hockney
(first published in @TheLondonMag)
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Jun 12
YEREVAN. Here on a mission. Enlightened and enthralling. Put it on your list before the stag parties get here.
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Jun 7
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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May 29
World premiere tonight of 'Threadlands' in Berlin @boulezsaal - my collaboration with composer Joanna Marsh. Tickets still available for tomorrow in Hamburg @elbphilharmonie
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May 26
Son’s getting married in Barcelona on Saturday. His mum’s just taken two dozen eggs to the nuns. So everything should be fine now.
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May 25
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'
#ManCity #Guardiola
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Mark Fiddes retweeted
May 20
Oh. Fantastic
Ordering immediately
Loved Mark’s Diary Reportage-as-Poem series on the war with Iran published in @madridlitmag
🔥🔥🎉🎉
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May 21
Hotel Petroleum.
Check-in for pre-orders today.
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.
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Apr 23
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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Apr 9
A fragile ceasefire brings an Epilogue to 'Spring Journal'...almond blossom and giant rabbits.
Spring Journal reaches its Epilogue with @fiddesmark hopefully and wistful and reminding us, we must go on... #IranWar‌ #peaceispossible #ceasefire #hope #love #gaza #beruit #lebanon
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Apr 9
A fragile ceasefire brings an Epilogue to ‘Spring Journal’…almond blossom and giant rabbits.
Spring Journal reaches its Epilogue with @fiddesmark hopefully and wistful and reminding us, we must go on... #IranWar‌ #peaceispossible #ceasefire #hope #love #gaza #beruit #lebanon
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Mar 27
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.
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Mar 22
Final Day of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Plastic bags and sprinklers.
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
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Mar 21
Day 13 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Kingfishers and thud counts.
"A sharp intake of jet..." The penultimate instalment of Spring Journal by @fiddesmark today #war #IranWar‌ #Israel #USA #droneattack #Missiles
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Mar 20
Day 12 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Flame trees and fiestas.
Life goes on in Spring Journal by @fiddesmark even as the #MissileStrike rains fall and #drones buzz. #witness #history #poetry
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Mar 19
Day 11 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Weak tea and speeches.
Written in Dubai as events unfold, @fiddesmark’s sequence continues to find traces of connection and quiet affirmation amid uncertainty. Â
#IranWar‌ #poetry #tonybenn @PeaceComCenter #louismacneice #memories
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Mar 18
Day 10 of Spring Journal from the Gulf. Orations and ovations.
When life goes on amidst war. Spring Journal by @fiddesmark continues the story of this current war told from the ground. Stay safe wherever you are! #IranWar‌ #middleeast #war #life #positivity #hope #love #peace
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Mar 17
Day 9 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Sky experts and Follywood.
We're lucky enough to share the same sky. Some put bombs in it, some words. The 'war' goes on and so does Spring Journal by @fiddesmark #IranWar‌ #PeaceInMiddleEast #peaceispossible #stop #oil #journaling
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Mar 16
Day 8 of Spring Journal. Caravanserai and mothers’ soap.
The eighth installment of Spring Journal by @fiddesmark - a witness to the current war #dubai #IranWar‌ #journaling #diary #eyewitness
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