P.W. Bridgman, Writer
@PWB_writer1
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Writer of poetry, fiction, criticism & academic articles about the law. Lover of all things Italian & Irish. Idiolect (2021), The World You Now Own (2024)
Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
Joined March 2022
"...profound, skilfully crafted, engaging & cathartic poems that deal with sometimes dark historical & political subject material...leaven[ed] with tender love poems & gentle sardonic humour." Humbled by Colin Carberry's review of The World You Now Own https://t.co/wLXuaghfmt
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The release of a tranche of #EpsteinFiles stored in Hawaii has begun.
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano just unleashed a massive wing shaped eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high
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Get your copy of @James_W_Wood's "Captcha This" while you can. With two print runs of the hardcover already exhausted, the newly released paperback is already flying off the shelves. Bravo, James!
The paperback version of my first collection of short stories is available to buy! As praised by @PWB_writer1 and @JamesMelville (thanks guys), this collection sold 2x print runs in hardback. Out now from Amazon, Barnes&Noble, the publisher and 25% off at:
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And here's the sequel to the true narrative that lies behind Rosemary's remarkable poem. The owners of the Sham Market, immortalised there, have opened another market, this time in West Belfast. Irrepressible. Some ashes. Some Phoenix. https://t.co/ylMrHSp1Ui
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A businessman who considered leaving Belfast after a racist attack is back in business in another part of the city.
Well-deserved recognition for @rosemaryj77. Her fine poem unflinchingly shows us the ugly face of anti-migrant bigotry and reminds us that it must be resisted at every turn: poetic activism that does its important work with subtle, realist brushstrokes and without bellicosity.
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Well-deserved recognition for @rosemaryj77. Her fine poem unflinchingly shows us the ugly face of anti-migrant bigotry and reminds us that it must be resisted at every turn: poetic activism that does its important work with subtle, realist brushstrokes and without bellicosity.
Announcing that Sham Supermarket, Sandy Row from my debut poetry collection Sandy Row Riots is highly commended in this year’s @ForwardPrizes - delighted and honoured! Many thanks @ArlenHouse @publishingwomen @ArtsCouncilNI @royallitfund @ACNIWriting @HeaneyCentre
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Please read @BorisDralyuk’s entire thread. It is essential reading at a dark time. It reminds us of the humanity & civilised norms to which we pray the USA will return when the country finally sees through the graft & mendacity of its current president and his fawning enablers.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation. Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me. https://t.co/R2IluiXtEo
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In a few hours! I am trying to figure out where to eat on my way. Or should I read hungry? Tear into some beef jerky mid-reading?
Folks in Tsawassen and its vicinity; I will be reading 7pm tomorrow, Nov 11th, at Albany Books with the talented and very entertaining Catherine Lewis. Join us for some poetry, won't you?
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Welcome recognition from the estimable @AmitMajumdar for @emilyasbjorn and her astute translations of Old English and Old Norse. (See the entire thread.) Emily has lately taken the translation world by storm. We all await the publication of her "The Skalds" by WW Norton in 2027.
1/ Let's head back into the Translator's Workshop--this time with @emilyasbjorn Emily Osborne, translating a medieval Icelandic poet. I have been a fan of her translations ever since I first came across them last year. Follow the links below:
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"That's what the apocalypse will look like/ ...shining abandoned/ shopping carts on cracked asphalt" (Kayla Czaga, from Midway) Some writers (eg Alice Munro) are often lauded for seeing wonder in the quotidian. Others foreground the dystopian in banality. Both have their place.
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This week we were honoured to welcome Chancellor @colin_davidson and broadcaster @MarkCarruthers7 to celebrate the launch of their new book: ‘Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings – conversations with Mark Carruthers’. Read more: https://t.co/I1fu5vUssA
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And now she has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry! Brava #KarenSolie! This is an unstoppable momentum. https://t.co/AQsbRSODgt
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The 2025 GGBooks winner for Poetry (English) is Karen Solie’s Wellwater.
@CamilleRalphs_ recently noted In @PoetryBrum that it's "taken an inexcusably long time for the UK’s poetry scene to notice Karen Solie." That's true of poetry scenes across the world. KS is a Canadian national treasure & she's just won the Forward Prize! (w/ Vidyan Ravinthiran)
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If you're in London on November 12th, don't miss the launch of the paperback edition of @James_W_Wood's wickedly clever, deliciously irreverent & transgressive "Captcha This!". Launch details in @centrehouse post below.
‘Both riotously good fun and a refreshing breath of fresh air,’ says @PWB_writer1, author of #thefourfacedliar. Come along for the #paperback #launch of @James_W_Wood’s #CaptchaThis! 12th Nov, 5.30pm, Friends House, Quaker House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London. @ANEditions publication
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"...[H]e is always aware of the human alchemy of writing and reading, how you let creativity flow in yourself and how the results land in the reader." Read the ever-perspicacious @ruthpadel's heartfelt appreciation of Seamus Heaney & the new Collected. https://t.co/GP5JZXdMj6
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With previously uncollected or unpublished works, a definitive edition deepens our understanding of the Nobel laureate’s creative process
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Perhaps the presence of a ghost qualifies a poem as "spooky" & worthy of posting on a rainy Hallowe'en? "You Have a Visitor, Sir" features Philip Larkin, a talking parrot called "Lickspittle," an undertaker called "Mr. Bottle"... Something for everyone.
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Eighth-century #Ireland was largely cut off from the continent, and had a lot of secondary materials in Latin, but had few of the actual texts that were being critiqued. Britain had lost even more knowledge of Latin; #Aldhelm's parents imported a tutor from Ireland to teach him
"It didn’t occur to people to mark word boundaries through a mark or space. Such radical punctuation developments would take another thousand years, and happen on a far-flung island at the edge of Europe – 8th-century Ireland. But that’s another story..."
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"...My father removed The pope’s blessing and replaced it With his own. That might work Better for you, he said." From "Garnets," a spellbinding new poem by @TriciaLockwood in the latest @LondonReview. https://t.co/ixmzPca5w1
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The whole point of writing an essay in school is to practice structure and critical thinking while forming and supporting an argument. If you use Chat GPT you are only robbing yourself of that skill
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Heaney eventually confronted the Troubles with the full weight of his talent. (See esp., Station Island, section VIII). Other NI poets successfully navigated the Odyssean challenges O'Toole notes--none better than Ciaran Carson in "Belfast Confetti." https://t.co/GHFcn9Ussv
Fintan O'Toole on Heaney's initial reluctance to engage with the Troubles in his poems. "He resisted gut instincts that could not be transmuted into art, steering clear, like Odysseus, of both the whirlpool of propaganda and the monster of indifference." https://t.co/iCmuvUm8oA
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Do other poets bridle at the reflexive "40 lines maximum per poem" limitation now imposed by so many lit mags and competitions? Prolixity is a vice that bends to proper discipline but sometimes a poem simply unspools as it unspools, right past such arbitrary finish lines.
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