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.
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A New York moment--March 2023. We won't return, alas, until America coughs up that toxic orange hairball currently occupying the White House & retreats fully from its downward spiral into an anti-democratic autocracy. We look forward to getting back there when that happens.
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Pozzo to Estragon: ". But how am I to sit down now, without affectation, now that I have risen? Without appearing to –how shall I say– without appearing to falter. ".
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Another well-deserved accolade for @BorisDralyuk, this one from the estimable @ColeHenri. The poems in Boris's own collection, "My Hollywood," tap into the same rich vein of the city's rich history and the contributions made to it by the Eastern European diaspora.
They told me I was nuts. They said no one would ever endorse my translation of a Hollywood extra’s bittersweet tale in rhymed couplets. But they hadn’t counted on @ColeHenri…. See what one of my poetic heroes has to say about Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED:
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". come not with ornate grief.to desecrate my sleep. ". Here only rarely these days. Sometimes life gets in the way. But I do want to share Christy Brown's defiant & lusty "Come Softly to My Wake." Its proud rejection of showy displays resolves ultimately to the deeply personal.
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Amici che parlano italiano! Immaginate! Potete cantare "Waltzing Matilda" insieme a Tom Waits in italiano! Basta seguire i sottotitoli.
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Humour abounds in @cjsarett's Any Excuse for a Party, but wry, poignant poems like "Hearing Mahler Five" live there too. Indeed, "one life's never enough. " But in the next perhaps introduce Mahler's 8th first? It's longer than the 5th, but oh those exquisite soaring voices!
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A delight. The juxtaposition of David Jones' "Anathema" against the clamour & olfactory assaults one associates with a laundromat is initially jarring but clever. The real point, though--that finding unlikely places to read (or write) undisturbed is essential--is bang on.
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Don't miss this! . Sure I'd be there If I weren't 4,500 miles away from Armagh (in Vancouver). Colin achieves a rare balance in his poems between clever humour and tender poignancy, as his debut collection, "Age of the Microwave Dinner" (Doire Press, 2021) amply demonstrates.
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"One neighbour said, Let's not tell the children,.why know the world as always fated.toward remnant. ". "The Innocent" by Jennifer Chang. From her Pulitzer nominated 2025 collection, An Authentic Life. Thank you, @ChelsDingman, for posting this extraordinarily touching poem.
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Missing Ciaran Carson today. "When someone asks me where I live, I remember where I used to live. Someone asks me for directions, and I think again. I turn into.A side street to try to throw off my shadow, and history is changed.". From "Turn Again.".
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And, no matter where you are in the world, you can watch @RyanYoungFiddle's Vancouver concert tonight concert online. It commences at 8:00 pm Vancouver time so adjust your viewing/listening plan for your time zone. Here's a link to online tickets:.
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The Rogue Presents Ryan Young - WEB _______________________________
Followers of trad Celtic music, nota bene! The dizzyingly talented @RyanYoungFiddle performs tonight at a Rogue Folk Club concert in Vancouver. Details below. Don't miss this prodigiously talented fiddler. (Shows at Mission Folk Fest this weekend too!).
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Followers of trad Celtic music, nota bene! The dizzyingly talented @RyanYoungFiddle performs tonight at a Rogue Folk Club concert in Vancouver. Details below. Don't miss this prodigiously talented fiddler. (Shows at Mission Folk Fest this weekend too!).
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Take time to read @tnyfrontrow's canary-in-the-coal-mine think piece on the importance of the "traditional" review, just published in @thenewyorker. Brody argues thoughtfully & persuasively for the enduring centrality of the written word in criticism.
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RT @griffinpoetry: “Spam is dead, great Spam is dead —.Will be the epitaph of the internet.”. So begins this sharply funny and unsettling p….
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RT @The_JHS: #JHISS25 Recommends. CAUVERY MADHAVAN in conversation with Maureen Boyle. Tues 29 Jul, 1.30pm l £12 . #Literature #festival….
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I favour Canadian, Irish & English poetry in my reading but @DianeSeuss, @KimAddonizio, @rikam99 & @janezwart.bsky.social are contemporary American poets whose work consistently provokes my amazement & deepest admiration. Maybe the @VanWritersFest will convene a panel one day?.
Kim Addonizio. This is the opening of a poem in her fantastic recent collection, Exit Opera (Norton, 2024). I’ve been a fan for a long time and for me this book and the last see her at the top of her game. So wildly imaginative and thoughtful, intimate and funny all at once.
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Is this book on your shelf? Today is the day to pull it down, read it again, remember & honour the lost ones & comfort their survivors. "Gather round, four-person family, here is 1985. spiralling always to time's centre. ". #airindiaflight182 #AirIndiaCrash @reneesarojini
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