Mark Fiddes

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

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A reading commissioned by @poetrysociety.org.uk for The National Poetry Competition

To celebrate #InternationalLiteracyDay
a poem about book removal.
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Wonderful surprise to receive this Best if the Net nomination from @madridlitmag.bsky.social - all the best to co-nominees.

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

At a time when voices are being stifled, this special issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social is needed more than ever.

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).

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As voices are being silenced, this new issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social comes at a crucial time. Thank you for counting me in.

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.

I believe it’s not about intrigue or trying to look clever.
You are allowing the reader to complete the thought or scene or emotion for themselves.
A form of abstraction, akin to the visual arts.
As Keats wrote: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

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

New evidence for hummingbirds In Lima’s Inquisition Museum,everyone is made of wax.The rack handler and thumb screw guy wear hoodswhile the heretics display mild surprise,that it might have turned out otherwise on a different d…

Here’s a poem about just such a hummingbird…
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“Somewhere only we know…”
Smart prompt from VERVE.
Thank you for the shortlisting.

Saffron I am joined by a fly

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Mark, you are so generous in your support of me and so many other poets @iambapoet.com

The wild Pacific of its heart An ordinary Saturday in June.

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Earlier this month The British Film Institute revealed 130,000 film and TV scripts were scraped “for training purposes” by AI companies. | Mark Fiddes Earlier this month The British Film Institute revealed 130,000 film and TV scripts were scraped “for training purposes” by AI companies. The same day, Apple released a report on the serious limitation...

What does AI want?

New piece on the creative workers and the AI future.

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Somewhere in the White House there’s a walk-in closet with a gold-braided uniform
hanging next to a Commander-in-Chief peaked hat.

Gretsch Electromatic? Nicely seasoned, Rónán.

Thank you, Debbie. Seems like it’s escalating.

“Gauze” for Gaza.
Many thanks to Alan Morrison and the kind folk @mstaronline.bsky.social

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Do you remember your first hummingbird?

Time to pick up the summer issue.

Brutally funny.

Many thanks to the editors @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social for including my poem ‘The Wild Pacific of its Heart’ in the summer issue.

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

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

Me too. I nod along with fans when all I have to go on is the Eddie Izzard Star Wars canteen sketch.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Artificial Intelligence Thanks for reading 💀 Memento Mori: A 26 Publication 💀!

Baudelaire, Redon and the squeamishness of AI.

Thanks to 26 for publishing in the Momento Mori series.
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