Notes on a Mountain Village

By James Thornton

The Irish-American poet James Thornton is known globally as a world-leading environmental lawyer working to save the planet. In this second poetry collection he returns to the same French Pyrenean village every Spring. Over 25 years he has settled at his desk, the flanks of hillsides beyond his window, and captured in verse the life and nature of the French Pyrenean village that is his second home. James's poetry conjures the lives of ancient villagers. snakes, turtles, fish, birds, flowers, crops, insects, hogs and children.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909954365
• ISBN13: 9781909954366
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Barbican Press
• Length: 61 Pages