Mark Fiddes
@fiddesmark
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*Other Saints Are Available (Live Canon), The Chelsea Flower Show Massacre, The Rainbow Factory (Templar Poetry). Creative Director at large. #MDANT
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Joined March 2010
*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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* miraculous insight and intelligence. Blurb writers take note.
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“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 miraculously insight and intelligence.” Geoffrey Household bio on back of Penguin 1st Ed. Rogue Male (1949)
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For the true phone rebels out there... Multiscreen 'It's Hip To Be Dumb' by Sergi Fiddes on Promonews https://t.co/cQEikzUJPJ
#promonews #SergiFiddes
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Sergi Fiddes directs a striking satire for Multiscreen, that plays out in a feverish clash of textures, live action, animation and lyrics for the London …
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'I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.' JD Salinger
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Hereby cancelling everything for a month to explore the 1000 pages of this awesome anthology, expertly woven together by @Deardarkness. Accompany with @NewYorker Poetry Podcast to hear the writers reveal their inspirations.
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Inspired choice for Literature #NobelPrize László Krasznahorkai. Big shout out for his English translator the poet @george_szirtes.
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Only three weeks left to enter the National Poetry Competition. Although I thought it never stood a chance, this one won a prize a few years back. Go on. Give it a shot. #Vimeo
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Do visit Andy Jackson's skanking poetry substack celebrating the reggae greats. One Drop Five...now including my Desmond Dekker tribute. https://t.co/nADqO5edo4
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Spellbinding verse here from @vic_spires thanks to @iambapoet
'The way fucking is – for you – a state of grace, which can be achieved alone, or together The way you are see-through, like the pleats of time made visible' https://t.co/YBHvgR8KJ5
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Watch “Mark Fiddes: Then & Now” on #Vimeo
https://t.co/AkMG8u4klJ Posted by @PoetrySociety for the UK National Poetry Competition.
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Only one day left to vote…
Just a quick reminder that Glasgow's 170-year-old Argyle Street Ash Tree has been shortlisted for the Woodland Trust's Tree of the Year 2025. Voting ends this Friday, so if you haven't voted already, you'll need to do it soon: https://t.co/AoK8CFkfNC
#glasgow #argylestreet
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Night Drive with Nina Simone With thanks to the Write Out Loud competition anthology, and judge Neil Astley.
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Much obliged to McLellan Poetry (English) Competition and judge Jim Carruth for the Highly Commended. Congratulations to winner Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and joint HC Pratibha Castle. Full poems here. https://t.co/pW4AeHgapk
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An unexpected nomination for Best of the Net. Many thanks @madridlitmag and best wishes to co-nominees.
We’re thrilled to announce The Madrid Review’s nominations for the Best of the Net Anthology, curated by @SundressPub Congrats to @JoseHernandezDz @SteverinoD @IrigarayJulie @CharlesPenty @fiddesmark #bestofthenet #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
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Truly deserved recognition for @vic_spires in the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize. Time to look up more of her work.
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Thank you to everyone who bought the special issue @madridlitmag - sold out on Day One…but you can order a PDF below.
We've sold out of physical copies on Day One - so send us an email if you want a PDF and print it out yourself. (themadridreview@hotmail.com) #gracias #ThankYou #poetrylovers #Madrid
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Fire-dancing with ‘Demoni’ tonight at the Juneda Festa Major, Catalonia. (Hat recommended.)
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I've been keeping busy helping out @PoetryAldeburgh, happening this November. Delighted to say our programme is now live. I'm doing a workshop, and chairing a debate on the future of the book, so nothing small then. It'd be lovely to see you.
poetryinaldeburgh.org
Poetry in Aldeburgh runs an annual festival of contemporary poetry each November in Suffolk
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