GORE BAY—He’s back by popular demand. Roger Nash, Sudbury’s inaugural poet laureate and former president of the League of Canadian Poets, will make a return visit to the Gore Bay Harbour Centre on Sunday, October 19. On this occasion, he will be launching his latest collection of poetry entitled Upsidoon published by Your Scrivener Press of Sudbury. Anyone who missed his animated reading at the poetry festival this past July will have a chance to hear his newest poems and to get a signed copy on site.
Roger Nash is a well-known philosopher and poet thanks to the success of previous collections such as Something Blue and Flying Upward (2006), ‘The Poetry of Prayer’ (2004) and ‘Once I Was A Wheelbarrow’ (2000). The professor emeritus of Laurentian University is also an award winning short fiction writer. In ‘Upsidoon: New Poems’ readers can enjoy his trademark quirkiness and wry perspectives on the familiar occasions of human lives. As his colleague Bruce Meyer says, “Roger Nash proves that the laws of gravity and gravitas are meant to be broken.”
Mr. Nash will be joined on stage by his partner and literary collaborator B. Chris Nash, author of the novel ‘Temperance Lloyd: Hanged for Witchcraft’ in 1682. Many Northern Ontario residents are familiar with her work as a psychologist, philanthropist and prime mover in the Positive Parenting Institute in Sudbury. The husband and wife duo will perform a dramatic reading of the historical/political events surrounding the last three women to be hanged for witchcraft in England.
The event runs 1 to 4 pm and is hosted by the Gore Bay Museum and the Manitoulin Writers’ Circle. More information at 705-282-2040 or 705-282-1714.
