Brian Turner
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Brian Turner

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Brian Turner (1944-2025) was a former Te Mata Poet Laureate and one of this country's best loved poets. An ardent and accomplished sportsman, conservationist and champion of our wild places, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Otago in 2011. He was the author of several books and lived in the Ida Valley in Central Otago.

Books by Brian Turner
Landmarks
Owen Marshall, Grahame Sydney, Brian Turner

A companion volume to the remarkable Timeless Land.

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My Life as a Foreign Country
Brian Turner

'My Life as a Foreign Country is brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I've ever encountered - a humane, heartbreaking, and expertly crafted work of literature.' Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried

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Somebodies and Nobodies
Brian Turner

Honest and insightful, this memoir is a revealing picture of our recent past, of sport and poetry, the spirit of New Zealand's south and its distinctive people.

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