Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
Biography
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden is the author of two books of poetry. Learning Russian was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Poems from Clinic Day have appeared in Open Field: 30 Canadian Poets (ed. Sina Queyras). In the Malahat Review Tanis McDonald describes Clinic Day as "singularly arresting," "a rare contemporary book of poetry that maintains a narrative while each individual lyric is polished enough to be a tile in the gritty and glorious mosaic of the imagined city." Diana is working on a third manuscript of poems, Self Help, and has completed a novel, bits of which have appeared in The New Quarterly and Alphabet City: Suspect.
Poet's Note
Since I started writing a novel five or six years ago my poems have become shorter and shorter. In protest? I'm not sure. Clinic Day, my second book of poems, edged into the territory of the verse novel. But now all the long lines and most of the narrative effects have packed up and decamped and what's left is a series of terse, slightly perverse lyrics.
Sample Work
from Clinic Day and Self Help (pdf)
External Links
Brick Books
Mansfield Press
The New Quarterly
Test Recording
23 September 2006
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden (29:18, 28.1 MB, info.)
Jason Christie (20:58, 20.1 MB, info.)
Question and answer session (17:21, 16.7 MB, info.)