Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)
Brian Lindsay Turner 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.
Turner lives in Oturehua, a town of 30-40 people in the Maniototo region of Central Otago. He moved there in late 1999.Awards and recognition
Source:
Poetry
- Ladders of Rain
- Ancestors
- Listening to the River
- Bones
- All That Blue Can Be
- Beyond
- Taking Off
- Footfall
- Just This
- Inside Outside
- Elemental: Central Otago Poems
- Night Fishing
Memoir
- Somebodies and Nobodies
