Latest collection 'Hotel Petroleum' (Broken Sleep). Poet, Librettist, Creative Director at large. #MDANT
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*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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Finally got to see Plastic People of the Universe, seminal Czech dissident band, celebrating Vaclav Havel’s 90th Anniversary.
This is the legendary Jiří Kabeš (the John Cale of the Velvet Revolution). #VelvetUnderground
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“Keep the company of those who seek the truth - run from those who have found it.” Vaclav Havel.
Celebrating what would have been his 90th today with a new installation beside Prague Municipal Library.
Later, a tribute concert by the legendary Plastic People of the Universe.
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Talking razored books and incunabula with the wonderful 90-year-old Father William Faix at the Augustinian Library in Prague.
(For regular updates on my UNESCO writing residency in Kafka’s gaff follow me on Substack.)
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Juneda Festa Major underway with Django Reinhardt inspired set under the gaze of poet Miguel Hernández…
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Love poem written on the last eclipse in Victoria Station...
"She waited for the eclipse to dump him.
It felt right with her light so hidden
for so long by so changeable a man."
#eclipse @PoetrySociety @_CaffeNero
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great interview with a brilliant poet i discovered first in @madridlitmag when he was writing his "diary" poem during the war with Iran, magnificent
Here is a wonderful interview with @fiddesmark on the publishing of his new book Hotel Petroleum with @brokensleep
enjoy
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, life across the Middle East and Spain. @fiddesmark @brokensleep open.substack.com/pub/themad…
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Wonderful story here from @FoyleOrfhlaith in @stingingfly
NEW our website this week🖥️
A short story by Órfhlaith Foyle (@FoyleOrfhlaith), ‘The Other Poet Drives a Black Mercedes’:
“Cows turn their big faces, and I am afraid of how life goes on until we die. All those dead tucked into the ground as the ancient Mercedes purrs by.”
Read the full story 🍐🍐🍐stingingfly.org/2026/08/06/t…
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Discursive and revealing interview with Will Harris plus a kind review of 'Hotel Petroleum'.
Many thanks and congrats to @RobinHoughton and @Kenpet for series 6 of podcast Planet Poetry. planetpoetrypodcast.com
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Paying respects to Antoni Gaudí in Reus, the city of his birth…on the centenary of his death after a tram accident.
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Over the past few weeks I've dodged forest fires in Southern France and now Northern Spain...welcome to CINDERLAND...in the new issue @ModronMagazine
@ZoeBrigley
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Frida taking time to absorb the new @fiddesmark...
"Your anxiety you may feed to the birds/
whose volume knob is next to your bed."
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El color de las granadas es una película armenia de 1969 dirigida por Sergei Parajanov. La película, que narra la historia de un trovador armenio del siglo XVIII, no es biográfica, sino un poema sobre las imágenes del poeta.
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Many thanks to @madridlitmag for this interview as the new book launches.
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, life across the Middle East and Spain. @fiddesmark @brokensleep open.substack.com/pub/themad…
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Wonderful to be joined by Victoria Spires and @BetaRish to launch Hotel Petroleum @PoetrySociety last night. You were the business.
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