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Words from the salt marsh
Harry Thurston is a writer, poet, playwright, editor, educator and naturalist living on a salt marsh in Nova Scotia. He is one of Canada’s and the Atlantic Provinces’ foremost contributors to the body of literature on environmental issues. His award-winning book, Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy, 1990, … Continue reading … Continue reading the story “Words from the salt marsh“
New Poetry from Harry Thurston
I Could See It Spoken published by Gaspereau Press in 2025 brings together Harry Thurston’s two earliest poetry collections, barefaced stone (1980) and Clouds Flying Before the Eye (1985), as well as previously uncollected poems written between 1969 and 1985. In surveying this body of work, spanning the years from fledgling youth to middle-age, the … Continue reading the story “New … Continue reading the story “New Poetry from Harry Thurston“