The New Statesman named James Thornton as one of 10 people who could change the world, and he won the Financial Times Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021, he was a judge of the Laurel Prize, for the world’s best collection of ecopoetry. Irish-American, James is also the author of Client Earth (Scribe, 2018) which won a Business Book of the Year Award. James is founder and president of ClientEarth, the leading global not-for-profit law group. This is his third collection. ‘James Thornton speaks as both a poet who has colonised science and a scientist who speaks a poetic tongue.’ – E.O.Wilson ‘Weaves quiet perception and poignant reflection on humans, animals, and landscape into a shimmering pattern of light.’ - Olafur Eliasson