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Brian Turner (4) (1944–)

Author of Colin Meads

For other authors named Brian Turner, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Brian Lindsay Turner was born in New Zealand on March 4, 1944. He is a poet and an author. His books include Ladders of Rain, Bones, Taking Off, Somebodies and Nobodies, Footfall, and Elemental: Central Otago Poems. He has won several literary prizes including the 1979 Commonwealth Poety Prize, the show more 1985 J.C. Reid Memorial Prize, the 2009 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry, and the 2010 Poetry Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards. He was the Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate 2003-05. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Brian Turner

Colin Meads (2002) 12 copies
Somebodies and nobodies (2002) 8 copies
Just This (2010) 6 copies
Night Fishing (2016) 6 copies
Taking Off (2002) 5 copies
Footfall (2005) 4 copies
Inside Outside (2012) 4 copies
Beyond: Poems (1992) 3 copies
All That Blue Can Be (1989) 1 copy
Bones (1985) 1 copy

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An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (1997) — Contributor — 25 copies
Dunedin : The city in literature (2003) — Contributor — 6 copies

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