Poetry and Other Nonsense

About the Book

This book is a collection of verse written by a senior citizen. Most spring from the author’s own experience. In general they try to convey a little humour rather than the doom and gloom of much of the poetry today. Some, however, are based on more tragic events like 9/11, Columbia and the recent Tsunami that ravaged South East Asia. In others the author tries to express his feelings after the passing of old friends.

About the Author

The author was born in Bishops Cove, Newfoundland in 1930 and is a product of the one room schoolhouse of the Great Depression Years. Later he attended high school and business college in St. Johns. His job history has ranged from labourer in a fish plant at the age of 12, to postal clerk, to RCMP officer, to Customs Officer on the Yukon/Alaska border. In 1960 he joined the Department of Manpower and Immigration and seven years later moved to British Columbia where he worked at Trail, Quesnel and Port Alberni before retiring to Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island.

Gus became interested in reading poetry while living in the Yukon having been exposed to the poems of Robert Service. His close association with the Yukon and Newfoundland comes through in many of his poems.