Mark Fiddes
@fiddes
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.
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.
A tribute to the great man’s inspiration from newly published ‘Hotel Petroleum’…’This Extraordinary General Meeting is brought to you by Trojan Records’
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/
‘THE WILD PACIFIC OF ITS HEART’ i.m. the radiant David Hockney (first published in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social now installed at ‘Hotel Petroleum’)
Memories of a wonderful evening at the National Poetry Competition Prizegiving in London.
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.
Delighted to play the role of The Traveller opening at the showcase event for The Emirates Literature Festival in Jan - also feat. @wasafirimag.bsky.social and a reading with Hesa Aldahel 24.1.26
“He plays no games, and takes no regular exercise. He has no hobbies except for…the entertainment of a large and ordinary black cat to which he ascribes miraculous insight and intelligence.” Geoffrey Household bio on back of Penguin 1st Ed. ‘Rogue Male’ (1949)
Stop the clocks. Lose yourself in 100 years of @newyorker.com poetry over 1000 inspiring pages, thoughtfully woven together by its poetry editor Kevin Young.
To celebrate #InternationalLiteracyDay a poem about book removal. @unesco.org
Tonight it’s fire-dancing with ‘Demoni’ at the Juneda Festa Major in Catalonia. Bring a hat.
Surprised and delighted that Plaza Poetry Prize judge George Szirtes has awarded first prize to ‘The tank who fell in love with a village’ - congrats to Raymond Solytsek, Wes Lee and Elizabeth Whyatt (2,3 and Highly Commended). theplazaprizes.com/the-plaza-po...
Plugging this wild US anthology on Joy. We need more of it which is why I gave them a poem called ‘Delighted, I’m sure.’ Many thanks to editors Naomi Simone and Chun Hyon Lee.
From Oporto, Portugal, a statue for our times. Justice has discarded her blindfold. Her sword and scales are ‘resting’.
Wake up call today on the evolving dynamics of global (dis)order with Samir Puri discussing his seminal book ‘Westlessness’ at The Ficker Institute.
Moved by #AdolescenceNetflix to repost this poem on toxic masculinity. POLITE SAFETY NOTICE. @poetrysociety.bsky.social