Mark Fiddes
@fiddesmark
*Other Saints Are Available (Live Canon), The Chelsea Flower Show Massacre, The Rainbow Factory (Templar Poetry). Creative Director at large. #MDANT
*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
woke up thinking about this poem by Raymond Carver
'Dieu Nous Donne Bonne Adventure', a poem by Victoria Spires from our June / July 2025 issue. thelondonmagazine.org/subscription/
Allergic to X but I'll bear it to say Chic to be Sad, my 2nd poetry book, will launch in Waterstones Cork next Tues at 6.30 & tomorrow in Dublin at 6, if you'd like to come to Dublin, send a DM, if you'd like to come to Cork, just arrive! @TheGalleryPress gallerypress.com/product/chic-t…
More on the John Clare Festival this weekend…go if you’re in any of the neighbouring counties!
Yes - the local John Clare Primary School kids parade their midsummer cushions across this week and line them up around Clare's grave in Helpston, to mark his birthday. It is always gorgeous - their wee trays of flowers bedecking the resting place of the most flowery of poets.
Wonderful to meet co-contributor @vic_spires at the @TheLondonMag launch last night in Fitzroy Square. Congrats to @JamiePCameron for a fitting celebration of the winners of the LM Poetry Prize - with a powerful reading from Kevin Graham.
Amazing showcase of new film and music talent last night @LondonMVA, Rich Mix in Shoreditch. Celebrating with son Sergi for the Nomination on Abraham French’s ‘Emergency’. See below.
Music Video of the Week: Emergency by Abraham French, directed by @aspect_sergio Tickets for LMVA 2025 are available! Link in bio 🔗
Although we are in three different countries today, here’s to fathers and sons. #FathersDay
A poem called "Gauze" in today's Morning Star. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gauze
"Gauze" - a poem for Gaza. Many thanks to Alan Morrison and the kind folk @M_Star_Online for publishing this today. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gauze #morningstaronline
Worth getting your hands on a copy.
Poetry by TLM Poetry Prize 2025 Winners: Kevin Graham, @Dean_Browne11 and @AbuAkleen as well as @MichaelaCoplen, @MaiSerhan, Edward Limb, Serena Alagappan, @jitterbugwrites, Luke Dunne and @fiddesmark. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…
For anyone stuck in traffic today… from the great Tony Hoagland (Turn Up the Ocean)
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Without End: New and Selected Poems 2002 @fsgbooks The “I” of this lyric is dependent for its meaning on soft spots and virtues unevenly distributed in humankind yet somehow universal, such is the triple “one thing only” of the climactic jesture. Brilliant
Many thanks to @TheLondonMag editors for including my poem 'The Wild Pacific of its Heart' in the summer edition.
Poetry by TLM Poetry Prize 2025 Winners: Kevin Graham, @Dean_Browne11 and @AbuAkleen, as well as @MichaelaCoplen, @MaiSerhan, Edward Limb, Serena Alagappan, @jitterbugwrites, Luke Dunne and @fiddesmark. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/pre-or…
RIP Alasdair Macintyre. Studying Aristotle and the Rationalists as an undergrad, this book had the most lasting impact. More relevant than ever. @JTasioulas
Small and beautifully brought into the world by @TATFS - much obliged to be the MF behind Elizabeth Bishop's roadster and John Betjeman's speed freakout. Order the highly collectible first issue now.
My small magazine of "pith and pleasure" THE LITTLE REVIEW is in this week's TLS.