New Collection - Out Now!

I’m delighted to announce that my new collection Nearly Man is out now, and available from my bookshop page.

Praise for the book:
‘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