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Nearly Man (signed)
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Praise for Nearly Man:
‘Brave, exhilarating, darkly comic - this is Steve Nash's best collection yet.’ – Helen Mort
‘To read Steve Nash's Nearly Man, is to find oneself experiencing a state of liminality, a place of thresholds, never quite in one place or another. Nash mixes humour and poignancy, and an attention to craft that elevates the poems from the flat background of the page, especially where the concrete form is concerned, when poems become more than just words, existing in the space between poetry and visual art. I was deeply moved by this collection, and found myself constantly surprised by it. I will return to it.’ - Wendy Pratt,
‘Readers of Nash’s work will find all the old imaginative wit and gothic quirkiness here but also a new vulnerability. Poems that deal with the strange, the shadowy and the half-sensed, yet in their tenderness and honesty are entirely relatable.’ – Charlotte Wetton
‘Nearly Man is both hilarious and devastating. With startling precision, Nash weaves a many-layered tapestry, charting a complex relationship between mother and son as she nears the end of her life, alongside the son’s quest for belonging and self-acceptance. Yet, Nash never loses his humour. From feral children in IKEA to the ‘sexy indifference of rot’, Nearly Man offsets the painful ‘blistered wing of morning’ with an indomitable playfulness.’ – Joanna Nissel
‘All shadows are almost”, Steve Nash writes in his poem ‘Morning Before’, and the poems in Nearly Man leave you with just this sort of ache – a barely-beyond-reach, seen-from-the-corner-of-your-eye sensation. Haunting, witty, inventive, and sincere, this new collection leads us through the strangest of places, and bits of those places will stay with you long after the last lines are read.’ – Kate Garrett
‘This collection bites deep, then offers a balmy antidote to the sting. With mastery and surgical precision, Nash manipulates gaps in memory/between words to allow glimpses of worlds/visions/tricks of light. A zoetrope of creative construction – elegant and mechanical – Nash steers us to meet mortality square on. This collection is quick and clever, dreamy and dark.’ – Lorna Faye Dunsire
Performing with Hollie McNish on the 12th September.
More details at the folling link:
http://tedhughesproject.com/event/hollie-mcnish-and-steve-nash/
“Taking the Long Way Home is the work of a rare artist with a fire in his head, but it is also an important addition to poetry in the English language. It is cutting edge without being pompous, it is technically brilliant whilst remaining accessible, it’s intelligent without being pretentious. In short it is one of the finest first collections I’ve ever encountered and it deserves your time and attention.”
- One and Other Magazine
'Steve Nash's poems speak with a 'feral tongue', honouring the Calder valley, a landscape of breathing chimneys, swooning moors and night-sky stories. This collection celebrates the desire paths we forge through language as well as through landscape. The poems of The Calder Valley Codex make you 'press your ear to the page' and listen truly'
- Helen Mort
'Steve Nash's life has been that of a wanderer, like a rolling stone or a troubadour. His poetry, with its welcome diversity of forms and subjects, leaves, to quote the Rock Poet's words in a fine poem about snow: 'footprints' that invite the reader to follow.'
- Debjani Chatterjee, MBE
‘The whole collection feels like sitting up at four in the morning after getting back from a club, when everyone else has gone home, thinking about friends, with a slight headache that will go away with the next glass of whiskey. That's a good thing.’
- Steve Toase
"Steve brings laughter, not just giggles. Think boiling water rather than tepid."
- Uni of York Poetry Society Review
'Whether weighty or whimsical, the poems that make up Steve Nash's first collection are finely tuned to the physicality of his world: the scuff of a match, a paperback pummelled into a pocket, the throb of iron-heavy blood. It is this tactile immediacy that keeps these crackling in the memory long after the book is closed.'
- Oz Hardwick
‘after reading Steve’s collection of poetry those who disliked, hated or felt general apathy towards poetry will be transformed and converted.’
- Soundsphere Magazine
'Millstone grit and the shadow of the industrial earnestness sing the song of the upper Calder valley. Steve Nash writes about these 'edgelands' with skill and artistry, captures the idiolect of their 'haunted geography' in sharp, relevant imagery and thoughtful, precise language. These are very fine poems indeed. I have enjoyed them immensely. You will too.'
- Bob Horne
‘Salt on the Lips’ Read by Helen Mort, Video by Claire Trévien
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