Notes on a Mountain Village

By: James Thornton

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Paperback | 13 October 2020

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An inspiring collection of poetry celebrating life and nature in a French Pyrenean community over 25 years.

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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James Thornton is the founding CEO of ClientEarth, a not-for-profit environmental law organisation, who The New Statesman named as one of 10 people who could change the world. His first collection of poems, The Feynman Challenge, was published in 2017. 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.

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'A poignant and evocative paean to an ancient village high in the French Pyrenees, where the reinvigorating 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

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