Animals of My Own Kind

Animals of My Own Kind is an outstanding introduction to the poetry of one of Canada’s best nature poets. Widely admired for his descriptive powers, for twenty-eight years Harry Thurston has trained his naturalist’s eye carefully, sensuously and idiosyncratically on his rugged Maritime landscape. In doing so, he has also staked out an emotional territory-a human inscape-remarkable for its hard-edged textures, fiercely-felt cadences, scientific unsentimentality, and empathetic range. Incorporating selections from his last six books, together with new work, these are poems made of bone, rock and water.