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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"Restless, witty, privately brilliant." When one of your favourite novelists from the Republic provides a generous FRONT-cover endorsement for the soon-to-be-released Selected Poems of one of your very favourite poets from the North of Ireland... https://t.co/xRijPwHTJ9
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Leontia Flynn is one of the key poets of her generation. This first selection of her work reveals how her poetry, so often pained, funny, and heartfelt, also...
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2 of 2/ All read with passion & elan. For me it was what Maslow called a "peak experience." Thank you Marc, Geo McWhirter, @kevinspenst, @RCWeslowski, @shauna_paull, Dana Cromie, @donalohanlon, Sangeeta Wylie, Louise Schwarz & hosts Mark & Yoo-Mi. I remain filled with gratitude.
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1 of 2/ Two years ago, at the bidding of the estimable Marc Lindy, 10 writers gathered at one of Vancouver's premiere arts venues, Notional Space, to give readings of samples of my fiction & poetry of their own choosing. The venue was filled to capacity. https://t.co/gSSgYoMkVP
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A poem for our times.
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People write and publish for all kinds of reasons with a wild range of expectations and satisfactions that no Thread of Tweets can contain. I founded and volunteered with a bunch of friends for a local literary reading series ( https://t.co/zSYIgXroKf) for 15 years. 1/
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A playlist for your Lá Fhéile Pádraig celebrations, nicely chosen & introduced by @johncreedon & helpfully relayed by @BoyleMo. As befits this otherwise sad day, Dolores Keane predominates, in the fine company of Sharon Shannon, De Danann, The Pogues... Streamable from Canada!
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I admire @StevenEKnepper's thoughtful praise for @AmitMajmudar's nuanced approach to writing that abides by formal constraints. Often the celebration of formal poetry here comes alloyed with a reflexive, unconsidered rejection of free verse. We're all enriched when both coexist.
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A Life in Poetry: Cambridge, Larkin, and Writing a PhD Episode 12 with @Clarissa_Hard_ is now live! She discusses growing up in a home filled with words and music; falling in love with poetry; studying at the University of Cambridge; completing a PhD on Philip Larkin, D. H.
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3 of 3/ Colin and I have been talking about doing a poetry collaboration video for years but life (surgeries for me, a new baby for him) has gotten in the way. But we'll get there eventually.
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2 of 3/ "Down" well displays Colin's clever humour and engaging delivery. (He's not the writer in residence at @theduncairn for nothing!) https://t.co/W8hsWshLup
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1 of 3/ You needn't take my word for it. Have yerselves a wee look and listen. "Potions and Elixirs" combines music, Colin's poetry and a fast-paced film montage to create a moving love letter to Belfast. https://t.co/Bth0AEOVLZ
@ColinHassard’s poetry is suffused with poignancy and humour and his oral delivery is nonpareil. This opportunity to see and hear him should not be missed.
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Damned autocorrect. "...[D]are I say the dialects of the VENETO especially..." (Venetian is certainly one of them but, to my ear, the Vicentino dialect is the most pleasing.)
Unnecessarily hard on English ( who am I to disagree with Byron?), but spot on about the delicious sonorities of Italian (dare I say the dialects of the Venetian especially?)
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Unnecessarily hard on English ( who am I to disagree with Byron?), but spot on about the delicious sonorities of Italian (dare I say the dialects of the Venetian especially?)
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"...the furthest distances I've travelled have been those between people. And what survives of holidaying briefly in their lives." This is the kind of poetry you can expect to find in Leontia Flynn's forthcoming Selected. Such a privilege to study with her at the @HeaneyCentre.
So looking forward to LEONTIA FLYNN's Selected Poems out from Carcanet in April. A big moment in a stellar career @HeaneyCentre
https://t.co/XcRDxx0ROS
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Ora un untuoso arcivescovo fatto di cioccolato per Pasqua. E poi?
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So looking forward to LEONTIA FLYNN's Selected Poems out from Carcanet in April. A big moment in a stellar career @HeaneyCentre
https://t.co/XcRDxx0ROS
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Our sorry world calls to mind Joyce's words in Ulysses: "I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame. What's left us then?" What's left us is essential goodness on a human scale. @DanielCowper reminds us of its power here.
On Friday night, I gave a reading from a book I'd dedicated to my grandmother, in a bookstore my grandmother first took me to when I was 12, wearing a sweater my grandmother knitted. 1/4
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Portrait of an early tech-bro. "...On his bedside table are rings of cognac, as on the year-old book he borrowed from Lily. He only reads machines, writes only cheques..." From "Sonnet Seventy-Nine" by George Faludy (Selected Poems, 1933-1980. (McClelland & Stewart, 1985)
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