Sociable Snapshots

When you're wandering in the fog though you've walked the same path a thousand times since childhood, it can happen that you no longer know where you are. And if you lose yourself in this way, walking in the fog along your normal road, there's a good chance you'll come face to face with a figure you'll take to be a stranger… (Nico Rogers, The Fetch)

Nico Rogers talks to Open Book about his multi-voiced, haunting book The Fetch (Brick Books), and how both the act of writing and facing the net on a breakaway have invited the ghosts of his past.

Nico Rogers will be reading at The March Hare West on Friday, March 4th at the Brass Taps in Toronto. Visit our Events page for details. The March Hare, Atlantic Canada's largest poetry festival, then heads east and concludes in Corner Brook, Newfoundland on March 13th.

Listen to Nico Rogers read an excerpt from "Praying to Boulders to Berries" in the podcast below. For readings of other poems from The Fetch, please visit Audioboo (with special thanks to Brick Books and Julie Wilson).