Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes Happy A vaccine against the solitude

A vaccine against the solitude of screen heritage

are more formally controlled but the repeating of first and last lines of the individual poems likewise serves to suggest the presence of an overarching unity

In The Voyage of St Brendan

and like its incomplete predecessor it is illustrated with bondage drawings by the translator herself

and the staff of a call centre in modern-day Tynemouth

Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes Happy A vaccine against the solitudeHotel Petroleum checks you into a world where the globalised hotel is both sanctuary and crime scene, lobby and blast radius, spa retreat and flood plain. Moving between Gulf high rises, war broken cities, Spanish beaches, Delhi art fairs and Anglican funerals, Mark Fiddes maps how oil money, tourism and empire seep into every room, every body, every view from the window. Fiddes is wickedly funny and deadly serious at once. Crayfish devour cities in