Harry Thurston

Harry Thurston is an award-winning poet and journalist whose environmental writing has been published in Audubon, Canadian Geographic, and National Geographic. Thurston lives in Tidnish Bridge, Nova Scotia, and is a Mentor in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program at University of King’s College.



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Lost River: The Waters of Remembrance, A Memoir
Harry Thurston

2020 / Memoir, Naturalists, Fishing / $28.95
9781554472161 / Trade paper / 208 pp


Harry Thurston’s eco-memoir Lost River is an elegiac meditation on the way that fishing, the rivers he has fished, and the people he has fished with have shaped his life. It is a story that encompasses both significant loss—of his childhood homestead, of rivers, and of the Atlantic salmon stocks, as well as of family and friends—and significant reward. Whether he’s recounting his experiences fishing his way down his native rivers and streams, reflecting on family bonds and writerly struggles, or recollecting the long work of establishing Nova Scotia’s Kelley River Wilderness Area, Thurston reminds us how fully the human and non-human worlds are interconnected, and of the great value of a life based in attentiveness and affection. Like a fish finally rising to the fly, the beauty and insight of Lost River elicit a bolt of excitement and hope. As one of Thurston’s mentors would say, “It’s good to know that we’re not fishing over barren water.”



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Other Books by this Author

Ultramarine
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2023 / Canadian Poetry / $23.95 CAN
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Keeping Watch at the End of the World
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2015 / Poetry / $20.95 CAN
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The Deer Yard
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2013 / Poetry / $17.95 CAN
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Broken Vessel: Thirty-five Days in the Desert
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2007 / Poetry / $15.95 CAN
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A Ship Portrait
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2005 / Poetry / $49.95 CAN
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A Ship Portrait
Harry Thurston

2005 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN
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2000 / Poetry / $39.95 CAN
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If Men Lived on Earth
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2000 / Poetry / $14.95 CAN
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