If Men Lived on Earth
by Harry Thurston

March 2000 | Poetry | $14.95 CAN | $14.95 US
1894031229 | 9781894031226 | Trade Paper

After a fifteen-year hiatus, If Men Lived On Earth heralds the return of Atlantic Canada's premier nature writer to his first love – poetry. Mining the image-rich mythologies and landscapes of his Maritime home, Thurston demonstrates a passionate understanding of both human society and the natural world with which it is intertwined. From the Bay of Fundy to the Galapagos Islands, Thurston takes us on a journey of discovery, charting our terrestrial location with an accuracy unmatched by any global positioning satellite. These poems embody an intimate understanding of what it is to be truly both of and on the earth.

Author Biography

Harry Thurston was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and has lived most of his life in his native province. For the last 25 years he has travelled widely as a full-time freelance writer for many of North America's leading magazines, including Audubon, Canadian Geographic, Harrowsmith, and National Geographic. He has served as a contributing editor of Equinox since its inception in 1981. His work has garnered several national journalism awards. Thurston currently lives in Tidnish Bridge, Nova Scotia, with his wife and daughter. Among his most recent publications is A Ship Portrait (GP, 2005).

Reviews

"If Men Lived On Earth is the glorious fruit of one man's articulate contemplations of the real – nature, mortality, everything that ignores theories." George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Sunday Herald