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Amanda Lamarche

@amiwarmer.bsky.social

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Human person and poet. Anti-shepherd's pie, pro-dogs in jackets. She/her. Living on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver, British Columbia 🏔️

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Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Nov 10

Really excited by the influx of poets and poetry lovers on Bluesky this weekend. Hi!

By way of introduction, here’s a poem of mine published in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology many moons ago. Hoping to share newer stuff very soon!

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Aoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 1d

Based on the cover of Seascraper by Benjamin Wood. #inktober #inktober2025 #drawing

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2d

Book Cover of the Day:

THE • TYRANNY OF • THE DARK
• HAMLIN GARLAND Blue cover with full moon with bat across it and taloned hands. Gold lettering.

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Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 3d

Really sad to discover that the City of Vancouver has ended Mountain View Cemetery’s Night for All Souls. It feels incredibly out of touch to take away a beautiful community event that helps people move through innumerable types of grief, particularly this year. Hopefully it’s just a pause.

Altar candles lit in memory of lost loved ones, Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 10d

Salvador Dali was alive at the same time as
Kevin Durant.

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Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 13d

Injured myself sleeping on the visitor side of my tempurpedic

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 18d

This is the best. My colleague and I were pretend casting the film version this morning and Mescal came up for us as well 😂

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 19d

Seascraper may not have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize today, but I felt this novel deeply and I’m so proud of my friend for his discipline and brilliance in writing it #benjaminwood #bookerprize

Raven Crime Reads @ravencrime.bsky.social · 19d

Somewhat bemused that this book didn't make the Booker shortlist, so wanted to spread some additional love for this beautiful and quietly powerful read. ❤
#BenjaminWood #Seascraper

#BookSky #BookerPrize

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 19d

Not sure my constitution can handle having discovered Ethel Cain this week.

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 22d

when I save the lines I cut from poems to use in later poems

a man Eaton a huge burrito over a huge funnel situated above an open tortilla so the excess spillage from the burrito fills the tortilla to make a taco

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Scribner Books @scribnerbooks.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Whether it’s harnessing a horse, cooking a fry-up or tuning a guitar, Wood transforms the quotidian into the poetic..."

The Guardian reviewed Booker finalist SEASCRAPER by Benjamin Wood, on sale 11/4.
https://bit.ly/4mGdzTw

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review – a story that sings on the page

A young shrimp fisher’s horizons are broadened by the arrival of a stranger in this atmospheric Booker-listed tale

bit.ly

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Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 24d

Look, my friend wrote Seascraper and this is now a Seascraper fan page and you bet I’m gonna heart every Seascraper post I find as I obsessively refresh my search for Seascraper hey did I mention Seascraper

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 24d

Okay I’m thoroughly biased (friends with Ben W) but I PRAY you’re right!

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 28d

Jeff Hiller deserved every bit of that Emmy. Somebody Somewhere was so special and Joel’s character was the beating heart of it. I really hope the show can be revived someday.

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 29d

The last 18 months have mentally and physically filleted me, and I can’t tell you how happy I am knowing hockey is back soon. I don’t even care about the Cup anymore. I just want to see Conor and Brock and Quinn and Thatcher and all the other guys that sound like they’re from Dead Poets Society.

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Sep 10

Seascraaaapeeeeeer! 🍤

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Really lovely interview. Thank you for sharing!

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looks like I only sleep every second night now, which is truly a grim treat

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Beyond grateful that this pod has found a new home. Bring on the restored faith and public crying, baby! I’ve missed it so.

Heavyweight @heavyweight.bsky.social · Sep 4

The new season begins September 18. Here's a look at what's to come. omny.fm/shows/heavyw...

Trailer: Heavyweight Season 9 - Heavyweight

A look at what’s to come this season. Heavyweight returns on September 18. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Pushkin+ subscribers can get all episodes ad-free! Sign up on the Heavyweight Apple s...

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Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Listening to records and hittin’ the sauce 🍎

(just coming out of a flu clearly conjured by my worst enemy - may the sounds of my expiratory wheeze wake them each night at the witching hour)

A big ol’ open container of apple sauce (the fifth container consumed by the flu-ridden author) balancing on a couch arm. Record player in the background and crate of records on a chair. Big convalescence vibes, baby.

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Aug 14

Oh good my birthday blues have peaked five days early

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Aug 14

He is the cutest little sky candy!

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Aug 13

Amanda Lamarche, bee photographer and dangling-bee-feets fanatic, at your service 🐝

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Aug 9

Santiago Rusiñol y Prats, Interior with Figures, 1894, Oil on canvas, 79 x 63 cm (MEAM, Barcelona)

A painting of a whitewashed interior with terracotta floor, leading to a plant-filled courtyard. A standing woman, perhaps a maid, and a seated man seem to be speaking

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Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Aug 5

Couldn’t be happier for this gent!

Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · Aug 4

The game of Fishdom has me by the throat tell my family I love them