Roger Nash returns with a new book of poetry

Roger Nash has a thought-provoking new book of poetry, When, available for $21 at Books and Beans on Elgin Street. Article content

Said Nash: “I try to write only when I think there’s something I simply have to say.” Article content Article content

And Nash has much to say in his new collection. He might take on how industry affects the environment or might simply wax poetic about a surprise encounter with a wolf or his observations concerning pigeons and hummingbirds. Even the weather has an impact on Nash, who makes detailed observations we may have noted ourselves but fail shortly to articulate.

He’s published 22 books of poetry, short fiction and philosophy.

Nash, a retired Laurentian University professor, is a past-president of the League of Canadian Poets and inaugural Poet L