One of the afternoon events at the Elizabeth Bishop Festival
in Great Village, N.S., on 8 August 2015, is a conversation
with four exceptional writers: John Barnstead, Binnie Brennan, Carole Langille
and Harry Thurston. This conversation will be moderated by yours truly. This
post features is a profile of writer and naturalist Harry Thurston.
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The Chronicle Herald rightly declares
Harry Thurston as “One of Canada’s greatest writers about the natural world.”
Harry
Thurston’s most recent poetry collections include The Deer Yard (with Allan
Cooper) and Animals Of My Own Kind. His environmental writing has been published
in many of North America’s leading magazines,
including Audubon, Canadian Geographic and National Geographic.
He has been awarded numerous writing prizes in both Canada and
the United States, including the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Lane
Anderson Award and the Evelyn Richardson Literary Award. Harry lives in Tidnish, Nova
Scotia.
Harry
has a new collection of poetry coming out this spring with Gaspereau Press:
Harry
was involved in many Elizabeth Bishop Centenary events, including performing
with Suzie LeBlanc and Tempest Baroque Ensemble during their “At the
Fishhouses” tour for Musique Royale in August 2011. He joined myself, Suzie and
John Barnstead in a reading of Joelle Biele’s play “These Fine Mornings,” based
on Elizabeth Bishop’s letters with her New
Yorker editors, in Great
Village in July 2011. He
guided a memorable bus tour along “The Moose” route in October 2011. We are
thrilled that Harry will return to Great
Village for the Elizabeth
Bishop Festival.
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