Illuminaries, Otago I am watching the northeast Wind like a rash on the harbour, the peninsula hills a perky green and hawthorn and broom and the first of the lupin in flower so obviously its spring. Dunedin, Otago where city…
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What do you want to do that for? Brian Turner
Arawata Bill: The Story of Legendary Gold Prospector William James O’Leary lan Dougherty Exisle Publishing $24.95 ISBN 0 9088 07 9 Once, many many years ago, my grandmother (my dad’s mother), when hearing that I was going sailing offshore, said:…
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Tagged with: Brian Turner, Exisle Publishing, Issue 32, lan Dougherty, William James O'Leary
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Laughter and the force of dreams, Brian Turner
Work in progress Recently I listened to the now former New Zealand cricket representative Danny Morrison saying some uncomplimentary and patronising things about the cast-off captain, Lee Germon. The reason? Danny’s just published his autobiography, written in conjunction with an adoring…
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Balm for TV’s dissolution, David Eggleton
Lands and Deeds Gregory O’Brien Godwit Press, $59.95, ISBN 0 908877 68 4 Timeless Land Graham Sydney, Brian Turner and Owen Marshall Longacre Press, $99.95, ISBN 0 9583405 5 2 100 New Zealand Paintings Warwick Brown Godwit Press, $75.00, ISBN…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Brian Turner, David Eggleton, Godwit Press, Graham Sydney, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 25, Longacre Press, Owen Marshall, Warwick Brown
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Poem — Brian Turner
Off-track, Brian Turner
Lost at Sea Gary McCormick Hodder Moa Beckett, $14.95, ISBN 1869581849 Down the Backbone Sam Hunt Hodder Moa Beckett, $14.95, ISBN 1869581830 Recently I picked up a copy of Heartland, the book of the television series, text by Gary McCormick.…
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Tagged with: Brian Turner, Gary McCormick, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 20, Sam Hunt, Summer 1995
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The Persistence of Talent: the Poetry of Brian Turner, Vincent O’Sullivan
Even five years ago, it would have seemed impossible that Brian Turner should win the country’s premier award for poetry. Not that anyone said anything much against his verse. But there was the quiet assumption that he worked his own slightly idiosyncratic…
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Tagged with: Brian Turner, Issue 9, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Fracture Country, Brian Turner
It’s Saturday 21 September, 3:45 p.m. I’m lying flat on my back in Ward 3B, Room 11, Dunedin Hospital. Four of us, flat on our backs, for this is fracture country. Ron, a farmer from Saddle Hill, broke his tibia…
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