"A poet-naturalist in the Thoreauvian tradition, Thurston constantly reminds us of how important it is to be fully present in the midst of our own brief lives and to be sensitive to the more-than human world around us." -- Leonor Maria Martinez Serrano, University of Cordoba, Spain, 2020.
"The lines are clear, thought-through, elemental, irrefutable. They transform history, economics, and ecology into experienced truth.... Thurston is a marvelous poet; his third book is not only his best but also one of the best to be published in, well, 15 years."
— George Elliott Clarke on Thurston's If Men Lived on Earth (2000)
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 Poetry from Harry Thurston"