Poet & Philosopher
Roger Nash
Canadian poet, philosopher, and Professor Emeritus at Laurentian University. First Poet Laureate of the City of Greater Sudbury. Author of more than twenty books of poetry and philosophy.
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Poet & Philosopher
Canadian poet, philosopher, and Professor Emeritus at Laurentian University. First Poet Laureate of the City of Greater Sudbury. Author of more than twenty books of poetry and philosophy.
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Roger Nash is a Canadian philosopher and poet, born in England. He holds a B.A. from the University of Wales (1965), an M.A. from McMaster University (1966), and a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter (1974).
He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, where he served as chair of the Department of Philosophy and director of the interdisciplinary humanities masters programme. He was a founding member of the graduate diploma in science communication offered jointly by Laurentian University and Science North.
From 1998 to 2000, Nash served as president of the League of Canadian Poets. During his tenure, he worked with Senator Jerry Grafstein to help create the position of Canadian Poet Laureate. In 2010, he was appointed the first Poet Laureate of the City of Greater Sudbury by Mayor and Council.
Nash served as cantor at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Sudbury, where he lived from 1970 through 2024. He now lives in Burnaby, British Columbia, and remains active in community organizing, writing, and promoting the arts.
Complete bibliography organised by category. Expand any decade to browse poems from that period.
Pebble Ridge Press, Sudbury–Ottawa, Ontario. 93 pp.
Buy autographed copy →Aeolus House, imprint of Quattro Books Inc., Toronto. 97 pp.
Buy autographed copy →League of Canadian Poets and Catchfire Press, North Bay. 48 pp.
Buy autographed copy →Your Scrivener Press, Sudbury. 120 pp.
Buy autographed copy →Insomniac Press, Toronto. 125 pp. (with C. Davidson, S. Dunn, B. Lever, J. Reaney, and R. Sward)
Buy autographed copy →Athabasca University Press.
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Buy autographed copy →Fiddlehead Poetry Books — Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton. 83 pp.
Buy autographed copy →In Betsy Struthers & Sarah Klassen (eds), Poets in the Classroom. Pembroke Publishers, Markham, ON, 1995, pp. 81–87.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 37. 1995.
In Wesley Cragg, Laurent Larouche & Gertrud Lewis (eds), Challenging the Conventional. Trinity Press, Burlington, 1989, pp. 216–225.
Window Fishing (3rd edition), ed. John B. Lee. Hidden Brook Press, 2016, pp. 202–204.
Canadian Chemical News, March 2004, pp. 10–11.
Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology. Reprinted in John Metcalf (ed.), Canadian Notes and Queries, No. 62, 2002, pp. 19–20.
In Melchior Mbonimpa et al. (eds), Mysticism: Select Essays. Editions Glopro, Sudbury, 2002, pp. 70–88.
In Susan McMaster (ed.), Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action. Penumbra Press, Ottawa, 2002, pp. 129–131.
Outlook, Vol. 40, No. 5, Sept./Oct. 2002, pp. 5–6.
League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, January 2000, pp. 1–2.
Northern Life, 28 April 2000, p. 8.
Northern Life, 22 December 1999, p. 17.
Web Del Sol, ed. Mike Neff, guest ed. Robert Sward.
League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, November 1999, pp. 1–2.
League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, May 1999, No. 134, pp. 1–2.
League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, March 1999, No. 133, pp. 1–2.
League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, January 1999, No. 132, p. 1.
League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, November 1998, p. 2.
League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, September 1998, p. 1.
League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, June 1998, p. 1.
Koyomizu: Toronto Urasenke Tea Ceremony Society News, No. 6, 1997, pp. 2–3.
Review article. Quarry, Vol. 41, No. 1, 1991, pp. 105–106.
Journal of Agricultural Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990, pp. 102–113.
Review article. Quarry, Vol. 39, No. 4, 1990, pp. 98–100.
Review article. Quarry, Vol. 38, No. 3, 1989, pp. 102–105.
Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1987, pp. 299–316.
Orbit, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1987, pp. 18–19.
Orbit, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1988, pp. 20–21.
Teacher Education, No. 27, 1985, pp. 15–33.
Orbit: Ideas About Teaching and Learning, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1985, pp. 10–11.
Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1985, pp. 10–23.
Review article. Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1984, pp. 72–76.
The Gadfly, Vol. 6, No. 4, November 1983, pp. 9–20.
Quarry, Vol. 32, No. 4, Autumn 1983, pp. 81–82.
Reporting Classroom Research, Vol. 11:2, 1982, pp. 4–5 (Ontario Educational Research Council).
The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 15, July 1981, pp. 107–111.
Teacher Education, No. 19, 1981, pp. 63–72.
Co-authored with B. C. Nash. Journal of the Canadian Association for Young Children, Vol. 4:1, 1977, pp. 37–42. Reprinted in Principals' And Administrators' Guide to Kindergarten, O.I.S.E. Press, 1979.
Anthologized in The PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2009. Anchor Books – Random House, pp. 160–169. PEN/O.Henry Short Story Prize Finalist. Originally published in Grain, Vol. 35, No. 2, Autumn 2007, pp. 24–31.
Sudbury Living, Fall 2009, pp. 66–68.
The Nashwaak Review, Vol. 20/21, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 88–96.
Reprinted in Bluffs: Northeastern Stories from the Edge, ed. L. Steven. Your Scrivener Press, 2006, pp. 102–113. Originally published in Cross-Canada Writers' Magazine, Vol. 111, No. 2, 1989, pp. 15, 28–29.
Wascana Review, Vol. 20, Nos. 1–2, Spring/Fall 2005, pp. 33–40.
Dalhousie Review, Vol. 72, No. 3, 1992, pp. 362–367.
Wascana Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1990, pp. 32–36.
Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 94, No. 2, 1987, pp. 303–308.
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon (Exeter Book). Waking Ordeals, 1997, p. 71.
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon. The Poetry of Prayer. Brynmill Press, Norfolk, 1994, p. 55.
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon (Exeter Book). The Antigonish Review, No. 79, 1989, pp. 94–95.
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon. West Coast Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1987, p. 37.
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon. Orbit, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1987, p. 19.
Translated from the Anglo-Saxon. Antigonish Review, Nos. 69–70, 1987, p. 201.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996, p. 220.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996, p. 216.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996, p. 208.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996, p. 205.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996, pp. 204–205.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996, p. 199.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1995, p. 231.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1995, p. 223.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1995, pp. 221–222.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1995, p. 214.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1995, p. 213.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1995, p. 211.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1995, p. 209.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1994, p. 217.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1994, p. 211.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1994, p. 209.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1994, p. 204.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1994, p. 202.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1994, pp. 200–201.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1993, p. 3186.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1993, pp. 3185–3186.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1993, pp. 3197–3198.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1993, p. 3212.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1993, p. 3232.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1992, p. 209.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1992, p. 205.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1992, pp. 201–202.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1991, pp. 228–29.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1991, pp. 196–97.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1991, p. 223.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1991, p. 212.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1990, pp. 233–234.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1990, pp. 229–230.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1990, p. 234.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1990, p. 226.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1990, p. 214.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1990, pp. 211–212.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1989, p. 5.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1989, p. 233.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1989, pp. 214–215.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1989, pp. 233–234.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1989, p. 237.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1989, pp. 213–214.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1988, pp. 186–187.
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1988, pp. 215–216.
Dialogue, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1973, p. 732.
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