Notes From a Mountain Village
Published on 3. July 2020
70 pages
978-1-909954-43-4 (ISBN)
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The Irish-American poet James Thornton is known globally as a world-leading environmental lawyer working to save the planet. In this second collection he returns to the same French Pyrenean village every Spring. Over 25 years he has settled at his desk, the flanks of hillsides beyond his window, and captured in verse the life and nature of the French Pyrenean village that is his second home. James's poetry conjures the lives of ancient villagers. snakes, turtles, fish, birds, flowers, crops, insects, hogs and children.
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Notes from a Mountain Village
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07/2020
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The New Statesman named James Thornton as one of 10 people who could change the world, and he won the Financial Times Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021, he was a judge of the Laurel Prize, for the world's best collection of ecopoetry. Irish-American, James is also the author of Client Earth (Scribe 2018) which won a Business Book of the Year Award. James is founder and president of ClientEarth, the leading global not-for profit law group. This is his third collection.
'James Thornton speaks as both a poet who has colonised science and a scientist who speaks a poetic tongue.' - E.O.Wilson
'Weaves quiet perception and poignant reflection on humans, animals, and landscape into a shimmering pattern of southern French light.' - Olafur Eliasson
