Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)

Brian Lindsay Turner (born 4 March 1944 in Dunedin)^[1] is a New Zealand poet and author. He played hockey for New Zealand in the 1960s; senior cricket in Dunedin and Wellington; and was a veteran road cyclist of note. His mountaineering experience includes an ascent of a number of major peaks including Aoraki/Mount Cook.

His writing includes columns and reviews for daily and weekly newspapers, articles, given radio talks, and written scripts for TV programme. His publications include cricket books with his brother Glenn Turner, the former NZ cricket captain, essays, books on fishing, the high country, and eight collections of poetry. His other brother is golfer Greg Turner.

As of 2008 Turner lives in Oturehua, a town of 30-40 people in the Maniototo region of Central Otago. He moved there in late 1999.^[2]

Awards and recognition 1
Selected works 2
References 3
External links 4

Awards and recognition

Source: ^[3]

1979 Commonwealth Poetry Prize
1985 J.C. Reid Memorial Prize
1993 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
1997 appointed Canterbury Writer in Residence
2003 appointed Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate
2009 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry^[4]
2010 Poetry Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards

Selected works^[5]

1978 Ladders of Rain
1981 Ancestors
1983 Listening to the River
1985 Bones
1989 All That Blue Can Be
2001 Taking Off
2002 Somebodies and Nobodies (memoir)
2005 Footfall
2009 Just This
2011 Inside Outside
2012 Elemental: Central Otago Poems

References

^ World Who's Who, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2012).
^ Interview in Sunday Star Times, 13 July 2008 pages C1-C2
^ New Zealand Book Council http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/turnerbrian.html
^ "Previous winners".
^ New Zealand Book Council http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/turnerbrian.html

External links

Interview with Brian Turner, from New Zealand Listener of March 5-11 2005, Vol 197 no 3382

Cultural offices
Preceded by Elizabeth Smither	New Zealand Poet Laureate 2003–2005	Succeeded by Jenny Bornholdt

Robert Burns Fellows

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Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)