Mark Fiddes
@fiddes.bsky.social
Latest collection ‘Hotel Petroleum’ (Broken Sleep). Poet and creative director at large. Dubai, Barcelona, London and unmapped places in between. https://markfiddes.com/
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Catch up with my interview with @fiddes.bsky.social & much more in Dave's latest digest. Lots about performance and page poetry, poetry criticism, by the looks of it... looking forward to getting stuck in
An especially thought-provoking edition this week with @garybarwin.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @collinkelley.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/09/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 37
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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September 15, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Catch up with my interview with @fiddes.bsky.social & much more in Dave's latest digest. Lots about performance and page poetry, poetry criticism, by the looks of it... looking forward to getting stuck in
Reposted by Mark Fiddes
📚 New: review of Hotel Petroleum+ interview with @fiddes.bsky.social
victoriaspires.substack.com
"Poetry can be the wake-up call not to outsource our curiosity and experience but to relish the lucidity of the present moment."
victoriaspires.substack.com
"Poetry can be the wake-up call not to outsource our curiosity and experience but to relish the lucidity of the present moment."
September 11, 2026 at 8:36 AM
📚 New: review of Hotel Petroleum+ interview with @fiddes.bsky.social
victoriaspires.substack.com
"Poetry can be the wake-up call not to outsource our curiosity and experience but to relish the lucidity of the present moment."
victoriaspires.substack.com
"Poetry can be the wake-up call not to outsource our curiosity and experience but to relish the lucidity of the present moment."
This morning I woke up in Kafka’s House, as a human.
September 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This morning I woke up in Kafka’s House, as a human.
Thank you for sending in shots of ‘Hotel Petroleum’ in its natural habitat. Dogs, Dante, Pianos, Robots. More please.
August 22, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Thank you for sending in shots of ‘Hotel Petroleum’ in its natural habitat. Dogs, Dante, Pianos, Robots. More please.
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.
August 17, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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.
Last month’s writing whereabouts…
August 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Last month’s writing whereabouts…
Cinderland
Sometimes you wake in your jacked cityto the Earth grinding its teeth and you weepat how raw the dawn has become. Today the clocks go forward and so do we.Forest conflagrations that were visible from spacewill cease as will the burning of bears like witches. Atolls that opened their…
Sometimes you wake in your jacked cityto the Earth grinding its teeth and you weepat how raw the dawn has become. Today the clocks go forward and so do we.Forest conflagrations that were visible from spacewill cease as will the burning of bears like witches. Atolls that opened their…
Cinderland
Sometimes you wake in your jacked cityto the Earth grinding its teeth and you weepat how raw the dawn has become. Today the clocks go forward and so do we.Forest conflagrations that were visible from spacewill cease as will the burning of bears like witches. Atolls that opened their petals and had coralsbleached for tourists in white linen…
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August 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Cinderland
Sometimes you wake in your jacked cityto the Earth grinding its teeth and you weepat how raw the dawn has become. Today the clocks go forward and so do we.Forest conflagrations that were visible from spacewill cease as will the burning of bears like witches. Atolls that opened their…
Sometimes you wake in your jacked cityto the Earth grinding its teeth and you weepat how raw the dawn has become. Today the clocks go forward and so do we.Forest conflagrations that were visible from spacewill cease as will the burning of bears like witches. Atolls that opened their…
“Not a big fan of free verse, but I do make exceptions…”
August 5, 2026 at 2:17 PM
“Not a big fan of free verse, but I do make exceptions…”
Revealing interview with Will Harris and a review of ‘Hotel Petroleum’ inside…
Now UP: Our Season Six Finale featuring Will Harris plus poems from @fiddes.bsky.social, Tess Jolly and more planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis... with your hosts @peter-kenny.bsky.social and @robinhoughton.bsky.social
Noticing | Noticing - with Will Harris - Planet Poetry
Cor what a scorcher! Time to bask in the company of Will Harris. You will delight in his fresh and distinct style, with cuttlefish-fast leaps of metaphor and imagery as we explore his two Granta volum...
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August 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Revealing interview with Will Harris and a review of ‘Hotel Petroleum’ inside…
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.
Also home to the world’s finest vermouths.
July 31, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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.
Also home to the world’s finest vermouths.
Great timing for summer reading. Big savings on breakthrough poetry titles - @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
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
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
July 31, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Great timing for summer reading. Big savings on breakthrough poetry titles - @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
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👀 - 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 !
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
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
July 31, 2026 at 2:21 PM
👀 - 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 !
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So far this year from the brilliant @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social bookshop I have bought Mirko Boncaldo’s Subverses, @leiabutler.bsky.social’s Tear and Share @fiddes.bsky.social’s Hotel Petroleum and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s Mountebank. All heartily recommended
July 31, 2026 at 9:04 AM
So far this year from the brilliant @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social bookshop I have bought Mirko Boncaldo’s Subverses, @leiabutler.bsky.social’s Tear and Share @fiddes.bsky.social’s Hotel Petroleum and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s Mountebank. All heartily recommended
The surrealist palette of Tarragona by night.
July 25, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The surrealist palette of Tarragona by night.
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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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July 6, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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
Review of last night’s Hotel Petroleum launch @poetrysociety.org.uk
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.
July 3, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Review of last night’s Hotel Petroleum launch @poetrysociety.org.uk
Great fun launching Hotel Petroleum last night @poetrysociety.org.uk with wondrous readings from @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @betarish.bsky.social
July 3, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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/
July 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Last few FREE tickets for the Poetry Society launch of Hotel Petroleum tomorrow night…https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/hotel-petroleum-book-launch/
Wonderful morning and great open mic session. Thank you, Ver poets.
We were delighted to welcome Robin Houghton (@robinhoughton.bsky.social) and Mark Fiddes (@fiddes.bsky.social) to St Albans Library on Saturday morning. As well as giving excellent readings, they also led a very interesting discussion. Our thanks to them and to the open-mic readers.
June 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Wonderful morning and great open mic session. Thank you, Ver poets.
‘THE WILD PACIFIC OF ITS HEART’ i.m. the radiant David Hockney
(first published in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social now installed at ‘Hotel Petroleum’)
(first published in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social now installed at ‘Hotel Petroleum’)
June 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
‘THE WILD PACIFIC OF ITS HEART’ i.m. the radiant David Hockney
(first published in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social now installed at ‘Hotel Petroleum’)
(first published in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social now installed at ‘Hotel Petroleum’)
Also included - interview on new collection ‘Hotel Petroleum’ launching later this month.
New Issue now available for preorder themadridreview.com?utm_source=s... Youth! Dr Helen Scales! Sinéad Morrissey! More!
@helenscales.bsky.social @unep.org @unepwcmc.bsky.social @fiddes.bsky.social @cristinajurado.bsky.social
Out on #worldoceanday #environment #oceans #poetry #writing
@helenscales.bsky.social @unep.org @unepwcmc.bsky.social @fiddes.bsky.social @cristinajurado.bsky.social
Out on #worldoceanday #environment #oceans #poetry #writing
June 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Also included - interview on new collection ‘Hotel Petroleum’ launching later this month.
Hotel Petroleum.
Check-in for pre-orders today.
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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May 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Hotel Petroleum.
Check-in for pre-orders today.
Check-in for pre-orders today.
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…
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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April 28, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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…
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…
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
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Check it out now. Check in June 30th.
“Hotel rooms inhabit another moral universe.” Tom Stoppard
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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...
www.brokensleepbooks.com
April 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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...
Check it out now. Check in June 30th.
“Hotel rooms inhabit another moral universe.” Tom Stoppard
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...