Notes from a Mountain Village

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The Irish-American poet James Thornton is known globally as a world-leading environmental lawyer working to save the planet. In this second poetry 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-03
Mått:138 x 216 x 9 mm
Vikt:106 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:70
Förlag:Barbican Press
ISBN:9781909954366

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James Thornton is a poet, Zen Buddhist priest, and founder and president of ClientEarth, the leading global not-for-profit law group. As a lawyer, with the Earth as his client, James sees that 'Nature speaks in the grammar of science’. He is a Conservation Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. The New Statesman named him one of 10 people who could change the world. Irish-American, born in New York, James is also the author of Client Earth (Scribe 2018), co-authored with his husband Martin Goodman, which received the Judges’ Selection, Business Book of the Year Award 2018, and the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature from Santa Monica Public Library. He has twice won Leader of the Year at the Business Green Awards. For his legal work, The Financial Times awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. His writing includes two novels, a book of spiritual practice, and three volumes of poetry. He was a judge for the 2020 Laurel Awards for Ecopoetry. He lives in London and Los Angeles.

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‘A poignant and evocative paean to an ancient village high in the French Pyrenees, where thereinvigorating miracle of the natural world is tinged with reflections on mortality' - Homero Aridjis, Mexican Poet and former President of PEN International ‘Weaves quiet perception and poignant reflection on humans, animals, and landscape into a shimmering pattern of southern French light.' - Olafur Eliasson, creator of In Real Life exhibition at Tate Modern in 2020