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Nicholas Bradley

January 29, 2015

Nicholas Bradley is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, where he teaches courses on aspects of Canadian literature and environmental writing, and an Associate Editor of Canadian Literature. His most recent book is Before Combustion, a collection of poems (Gaspereau Press, 2023). He lives in Victoria, BC—in lək̓ʷəŋən territory.


Works by Nicholas Bradley

EditorialsBook ReviewsArticlesLast PagesPoetryBook Reviews of Author

Editorials by Nicholas Bradley

Feeling Sorry
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Canadian Literature 250 (2022): 5-11.
Surprise, Surprise
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 6-12.
Non-Fiction

Book Reviews by Nicholas Bradley

Cold Warriors
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.)
  • Russian Roulette by Victor Pogostin
Small Frye and Great
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.): 175-177.
  • The Reception of Northrop Frye by Robert D. Denham (Editor)
All What Jazz
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 176-178.
  • Music at the Heart of Thinking by Fred Wah
Canvas and Page
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 130-131.
  • The Dusty Bookcase: A journey Through Canada's Forgotten, Neglected, and Suppressed Writing by Brian Busby
  • The Art of P. K. Irwin: observer, other, Gemini by Michèle Rackman Hall
Poets Young, Old, Mild, Bold (Revised)
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 122-126.
  • Sit How You Want by Robin Richardson
  • East and West by Laura Ritland
  • Dark Woods by Richard Sanger
  • The Gamekeeper by Michael Harris
  • The Essential Dorothy Roberts by Dorothy Roberts and Brian Bartlett (Editor)
Non-Fiction
Through Tamarack Swamps
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 116-118.
  • Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan by Alden Nowlan and Brian Bartlett (Editor)
  • All Manner of Tackle: Living with Poetry by Brian Bartlett
Poetry
Who Was Clark Blaise?
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 168-170.
  • Clark Blaise: The Interviews by J. R. (Tim) Struthers (Editor)
  • Clark Blaise: Essays on His Works by J. R. (Tim) Struthers (Editor)
Non-Fiction
Three from Gaspereau
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 160-162.
  • Some Nights It's Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work by Matt Robinson (Author)
  • The News by Rob Taylor (Author)
  • The Photographer's Last Picture by Sean Howard (Author)
Poetry
Letters from Iceland
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 162-164.
  • Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes by O. Alan Weltzien
  • Conrad Kain: Letters from a Wandering Mountain Guide, 1906-1933 by Conrad Kain and Zac Robinson (Editor)
Poetry
Poems of the Leafy Mind
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Literary History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017): 145-147.
  • The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton
  • The Witch of the Inner Wood: Collected Long Poems by M. Travis Lane and Shane Neilson (Editor)
Epistolary Writing Nature Writing
Pressing Concerns
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Disappearance and Mobility. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 201 (Summer 2009): 153-155.
  • Everywhere Being is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst
  • Gaspereau Gloriatur: Liber Beati Anni Decimi. Volume II: Prose by Michael deBeyer (Editor), Kate Kennedy (Editor) and Andrew Steeves (Editor)
British Columbia Canadian Studies Colonialism Indigenous History Postcolonialism
Four Ways to Make Poems
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 122-124.
  • Bardy Google by Frank Davey (Author)
  • That Other Beauty by Karen Enns
  • The Essential Margaret Avison by Margaret Avison
  • The Glassblowers by George Sipos
Short Fiction
Recent Western Writing
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 144-146.
  • Pye-Dogs by Tammy Armstrong and George McWhirter
  • Understories by Marc Ory
  • River of Gold by Anusree Roy
  • Hooker & Brown by David Yee and Shirley Mahood
Poetry
Arcadia Under Glass
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Mordecai Richler. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 207 (Winter 2010): 122-123.
  • Animals of My Own Kind by Harry Thurston
  • Boxing the Compass by Richard Greene
  • Penned by Simon Reader, Stephanie Bolster and Katia Grubisic
British Columbia Historical Fiction Poetry
"I'll Teach You Cree"
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Canadian Literature 206 (Autumn 2010): 187-189.
  • Gabriel's Beach by Neil McLeod
  • Little Hunger by Phillip Kevin Paul
  • Fifth World Drum by Anna Mraie Sewell
  • Kipocihkâƒn by Gregory Scofield (Author)
Animal Studies Poetry
Beastly Trade
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Canadian Literature 206 (Autumn 2010): 147-149.
  • Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British-Atlantic World, 1770-1850 by Kevin Hutchings
  • The Bedside Book of Beasts by Graeme Gibson
Two Literary Lives
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Disappearance and Mobility. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 201 (Summer 2009): 185-187.
  • Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic by Val Ross
  • Pierre Berton: A Biography by A. B. McKillop
Ecocriticism Nature Writing
In and Out of the Wild
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Disappearance and Mobility. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 201 (Summer 2009): 144-145.
  • A Passion for this Earth: Writers, Scientists & Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature & the Environment by Michelle Benjamin
  • The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture by Tim Bowling
Biography
Cadence, Country, Voice
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 161-162.
  • The Cadence of Civil Elegies by Robert Lecker
Ecocriticism
Those Burned Out Stars
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 155-156.
  • Not Needing All the Words: Michael Ondaatje’s Literature of Silence by Annick Hillger
Culture Poetry
Animal Souls and Tales
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 165-167.
  • Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals by Rod Preece
  • States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century by Tina Loo
  • All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950 by Robert E. Kohler
Literary Criticism
Rocky Seas, Safe Arbour
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 171-72.
  • Paradoxides: Poems by Don McKay
  • Naked Trees by John Terpstra

Articles by Nicholas Bradley

Huckleberries and HEPA Filters: Talking Place with Fred Wah
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 17-36.

Last Pages by Nicholas Bradley

Supreme Fictions and Strange Relations
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 179-184.
Truths and Consequences
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 182-88.
Poetry

Poetry by Nicholas Bradley

Metamorpheses
By Nicholas Bradley
Published in Agency & Affect. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 223 (Winter 2014): 66.
Animal Studies Nature Writing

Book Reviews of Nicholas Bradley's Works

Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
By Nicholas Bradley and Ella Soper
Reviewed in Unanswered Questions by Graham Huggan
We Go Far Back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1987
By Nicholas Bradley
Reviewed in Friends Talking Poetry by Owen Percy
Canadian Studies Ecocriticism