{"id":7710,"date":"2020-03-30T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:23:17","slug":"featured-reviews-of-rain-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2020\/03\/30\/featured-reviews-of-rain-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews of &#8220;Rain Shadow&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/902-9781772123708-rain-shadow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Rain Shadow<\/em><\/a>] fits easily into my shelf of place-aware, place-engaged, self-examining literature from the North American West&#8230;. Bradley has a real knack for the potent ending. His final lines simultaneously turn his poems and sprout from them, meaning that each piece in this collection tugs you to stop a minute before you move to the next page&#8230;. He slips between registers with ease, blending humour with story with reflection&#8230;&#8221; [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/boughtbooks.blogspot.com\/2018\/08\/nicholas-bradley-rain-shadow.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full review<\/a>] <em>Book Addiction<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Told in four parts, the collection centers thematically around the way humans move through, connect to, and are ultimately alien from our surrounding landscapes&#8230;. The poet\u2019s haunting voice floats through existential thoughts, alternating between the abstract and the visceral&#8230;. In a time when the effects of climate change ravage our natural landscapes and the disconnect between citizen and cosmos seems ever widening, the poems are prescient&#8230;. Bradley sketches scenes ever on the edge of disaster, where all life is precious and profound, and rests in the shadow where little rain falls and true growth is a struggle, not to be taken for granted.&#8221; [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.splitrockreview.org\/rain-shadow-review\" target=\"_blank\">Full review<\/a>] Amy Clark,<em>&nbsp;Split Rock Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Bradley describes and appeals to massive elemental forces and beings, like earthquakes and avalanches, bears and killer whales&#8230;. Figurative language and wordplay, often subtle, appear throughout the collection&#8230;.Some of these poems celebrate wildlife and wildness; some highlight the uneasy and destructive relationships we maintain with our fellow earthlings&#8221;. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1509&amp;context=thegoose\" target=\"_blank\">Full review<\/a>] Kelly Shepherd,&nbsp;<em>The Goose<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/9781772123708.twitter-597x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Shadow_Cover\" class=\"wp-image-7439\" width=\"326\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/9781772123708.twitter-597x1024.jpg 597w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/9781772123708.twitter-87x150.jpg 87w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/9781772123708.twitter-768x1317.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/9781772123708.twitter.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[Rain Shadow] fits easily into my shelf of place-aware, place-engaged, self-examining literature from the North American West&#8230;. 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