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Mark Fiddes

@fiddes.bsky.social

Poet and creative director. '*Other Saints Are Available' (Live Canon), 'The Rainbow Factory' + 'The Chelsea Flower Show Massacre' (Templar). Dubai, Barcelona, London and unmapped places in between. https://markfiddes.com/

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Fiona Larkin@fionalarkin.bsky.social · 5d ago

👀 - 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 !

Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 6d ago

FLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

Broken sleep books Flash sale! 20% off For 3 days only Poetry, pamphlets, anthologies, the lot No code needed. Discounts show on site. Brokensleepbooks.com Ends Sunday night
The Madrid Review@madridlitmag.bsky.social · last mo.

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

Mark Fiddes: Inner Cities, Outer Worlds.

As his latest collection, 'Hotel Petroleum' is published by Broken Sleep Books, Mark Fiddes talks to James Hartley.

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Mark Fiddes@fiddes.bsky.social · last mo.

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

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟@markantonyowen.com · last mo.

There was @victoriaspires.bsky.social, taking us down various rabbit holes with her fresh and distinctive voice, @betarish.bsky.social with poems that raised smiles and won the room, and of course, @fiddes.bsky.social, whose poetry just undoes me with its brilliant imagery and perfectly hewn lines.

Mark Fiddes@fiddes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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…

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 Winter and gratitudefor the carnal smell of ditches. From your slippery rock in the Atlantic…

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Mark Fiddes@fiddes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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...

Mark Fiddes - Hotel Petroleum | Broken Sleep Books

Hotel Petroleum is Mark Fiddes's fourth collection, structured as a journey in three movements, Arrival, Occupancy, and Departure, through a world of expat dislocation, geopolitical emergency, and the...

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Mark Fiddes@fiddes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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…

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 glass crusted along their hairlines.“Go with the Flow,”they said like it was a slogan.

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