Brian Turner
Brian Turner, born in 1944, is a poet and non-fiction writer. His numerous awards include the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1993 and in 2010 and the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry 2009. He was the Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate 2003–05 and received The Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry 2009. An Otago-ite and staunch southerner, he has for some years lived in Oturehua, Central Otago, also known as ‘Where the hell's that?’ and the so-called ‘Middle of Nowhere’.
Turner comments: ‘Other than acknowledging the touch of a nod towards Wallace Stevens, I'd prefer to let the poem speak for itself.’
