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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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Spending Valentines in the Renaissance with Rose Balston (BBC/Sky Arts) and Melissa Alder (Royal Opera House) for art, arias and my dodgy take on Dante. (No cherubs were harmed in the making of this event.)

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In the year in which #BobMarley would have turned 80, here's news of a #Reggae / Poetry project, to which you're invited to contribute. For more information, contact either Stephen Watt Poet or myself.

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‘She is rocking like a little Jesus’ – Mark Fiddes, Knitted Octopus #HighRise #BrutalistPoetry #Slimlines

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Join a worldwide audience for The 2025 Poetic Heart Readings with me and 10 fellow poets at 4pm GST, 12pm GMT. Link here. www.thepoeticheart.com

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A tribute to David Lynch from New Verse Review. Many thanks to Ethan McGuire for selecting ‘The Wanted’. open.substack.com/pub/newverse...

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Good morning, friends. With one simple press of a button, you can follow all these lovely writers. There's even space for 2 more.... go.bsky.app/73irajm

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ICYMI: Dua Lipa in conversation with Olga Tokarczuk discussing DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YRx...

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Listen first. History of modern times in one stunning poem. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Catastrofish, Apocalynx and the Armagibbon.

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The excellent Kirsty Gunn on recent work by New Zealand poets Diana Bridge and the late Vincent O’Sullivan.

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

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

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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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Chekhov. At Taco Bell. Where else? Wonderful lightness and shade here from @jobratten.bsky.social

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

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

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

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Madrid has finally joined the ranks of European capitals with a literary journal in English, and it's already an exciting and essential read, including great poets with a Spanish connection like @fiddes.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/madr...

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Strapping in for 2025. From this morning…

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Listen here to the charming and erudite David Price on Madrid’s only all-English bookshop in the Barrio de Las Letras. Proof that a bookshop do much more than sell books…thanks once more to @madridlitmag.bsky.social

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And Happy New Year and THANKS to the talent - over 30 writers and poets from more than 11 countries, including @fiddes.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @julieirigaray.bsky.social @maxmorden50.bsky.social @callasmith.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

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

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Wonderful gathering this week for #TroubadourPrize hosted by @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social. Thanks to judges Jane Yeh and Glyn Maxwell. Congrats to winners Imogen, Victoria and Weijia. Poems below. www.coffeehousepoetry.org/poems

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“It is said/outer space has a scent/of spent gunpowder…’ Rob Miles’ must-read collection from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @robmiles.bsky.social #Poetry

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Congratulations to all Ledbury Poetry Prize 2024 winners! @fiddes.bsky.social‬, @mollytwomey.bsky.social and @aliciarebecca.bsky.social

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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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