Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes Robert Powell behind great Shires and Percherons

behind great Shires and Percherons

' this is poetry which is vivid

Throughout the poems

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all of them integrated into Ashbery's generous

Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes Robert Powell behind great Shires and PercheronsHotel 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