Thomas Bristow Thomas Bristow i(6694183 works by) (a.k.a. Tom Bristow)
Gender: Male
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1 Period Rhetoric, Countersignature, and the Australian Novel Thomas Bristow , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: A/b : Auto/Biography Studies , vol. 35 no. 1 2020; (p. 35-61)

'This article explores literary practices placing the writer in dialogue with the places he has inhabited recently while researching the Australian novel. This includes a fictocritical engagement with place-based Australian literature (via Xavier Herbert and Randolph Stow) and a maverick whizz through deconstruction and genre studies. Written in an elegiac mode punctuated by an environmental humanities countersignature, this example of period rhetoric embodies autobiography in the Anthropocene, the event horizon of human signature.' (Publication abstract)

1 y separately published work icon The Anthropocene Lyric : An Effective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place Thomas Bristow , London : Palgrave Pivot , 2015 24511361 2015 multi chapter work criticism

'This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Alert, but not Alarmed : Emotion, Place and Anticipated Disaster in John Kinsella’s ‘Bushfire Approaching’ Thomas Bristow , Grace Moore , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Philological Quarterly , vol. 93 no. 3 2014; (p. 343-359)

'This essay examines John Kinsella’s prize-winning poem “Bushfire Approaching.” Drawing on Brian Massumi’s work on anticipated disaster—in particular his attention to trauma-survivors haunted by “the smoke of future fires”—we analyze Kinsella’s treatment of debates surrounding climate change in Australia. Fire in ‘Bushfire Approaching’ is both symbolic and real, representing burning in the past, present and future. The poem’s articulation of place, space and time captures oppositions between the willed amnesia attributed to many fire survivors, along with a vision of a future punctuated by repeated climatic catastrophes. Deploying affect theory and close reading through an ecocritical lens, we interpret the bushfire as a signifier of the complex relationship between climate change and custodianship of the land. This approach situates Kinsella’s poetry within a broader discussion of the bushfire as a natural phenomenon, while we also consider the poet’s deep respect for fire and its role in Australian ecology.'

Source: Abstract.

1 White Canoe i "there is a light you can still make out", Thomas Bristow , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Sudden Presence : Poetry from the Inaugural ACU Literature Prize 2013; (p. 17-18)
1 Ecocriticism : Environment, Emotions and Education Thomas Bristow , Grace Moore , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 31 May 2013;
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