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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This morning I woke up in Kafka’s House, as a human.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thank you for sending in shots of ‘Hotel Petroleum’ in its natural habitat. Dogs, Dante, Pianos, Robots. More please.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Stumbled upon this wonderful trio yesterday evening in Lascuarre church, Aragon. Ad Lucem playing Victoria and Monteverdi led by countertenor and local boy Hugo Bolivar.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Last month’s writing whereabouts…

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“Not a big fan of free verse, but I do make exceptions…”

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The surrealist palette of Tarragona by night.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A tribute to the great man’s inspiration from newly published ‘Hotel Petroleum’…’This Extraordinary General Meeting is brought to you by Trojan Records’

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Great fun launching Hotel Petroleum last night @poetrysociety.org.uk with wondrous readings from @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @betarish.bsky.social

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Last few FREE tickets for the Poetry Society launch of Hotel Petroleum tomorrow night…https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/hotel-petroleum-book-launch/

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

‘THE WILD PACIFIC OF ITS HEART’ i.m. the radiant David Hockney (first published in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social now installed at ‘Hotel Petroleum’)

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Memories of a wonderful evening at the National Poetry Competition Prizegiving in London.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Written ten years minus one week ago. (Photo: Masashi Kuwamoto) #Bowie

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A cautious welcome to 2026. ‘Year of the Heron’.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

A rainbow in December. Canal d’Urgell, Catalonia. More portents, please.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

“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)

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Security detail for tonight’s gig at The Emirates Literature Foundation.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Always this time of year… Adam Zagajewski from ‘True Lives’ (2024)

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Tonight it’s fire-dancing with ‘Demoni’ at the Juneda Festa Major in Catalonia. Bring a hat.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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...

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

From Oporto, Portugal, a statue for our times. Justice has discarded her blindfold. Her sword and scales are ‘resting’.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Do you remember your first hummingbird?

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you’d accept as a bribe.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Wake up call today on the evolving dynamics of global (dis)order with Samir Puri discussing his seminal book ‘Westlessness’ at The Ficker Institute.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Eid Mubarak from the Grand Mosque Abu Dhabi this evening.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Moved by #AdolescenceNetflix to repost this poem on toxic masculinity. POLITE SAFETY NOTICE. @poetrysociety.bsky.social

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A ‘found poem’ in the banned list. Project 2026 agenda.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A ‘found poem’ of undesirable words in U.S. government - from @nytimes.com

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“I reckon they must be ours,” says Gerry. Whoever we are now. Pick a side, any side - a poem of impossible choices. Thanks to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Southward Issue 46

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

There’s Hercules of Alicante and Ajax of Amsterdam.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Looks that way. Fan poem written a week after he left.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Catastrofish, Apocalynx and the Armagibbon.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If you’re feeling “Blue Monday” - a couple of antidotes.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Tribute to David Lynch via Roy Orbison. (First published in Dreich Magazine 2023)

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Remembering (un)scripting the most manic training films ever with Tony Slattery and Mike McShane for the UK Post Office. (Mike’s dad was a postman and Tony was a genius). RIP Mr Slattery.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Louis MacNeice on “less difficult media” with a question for Musk and Zuckerberg. #SocialMedia @poetrysociety.bsky.social

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

‘New evidence of hummingbirds’ (recently commended in the Troubadour International Prize)

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

To mark the 60th anniversary of this photograph - taken the day after T.S. Eliot’s death.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

To mark this photograph’s 60th anniversary…

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Strapping in for 2025. From this morning…

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

“Today could be longer. It could be brighter and kinder in a million ways.” #Solstice poem and birthday wish.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Soaring melodies of Shufqat Ali Khan and our Urdu-English poetry session with legendary Javed Akhtar - personal highlights of the 2024 #TahbibFestival so far.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I write as Kräm with a poem called ‘The IKEA Dictionary of Krapp’. From ‘The Rainbow Factory’.

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