Brian Turner is a writer who lives in Oturehua. He has played international hockey for New Zealand, worked as a golf caddy around the world, and is the author of books of essays and verse. Brian was born in Dunedin in 1946.
New verse by Oturehua writer Brian Turner.
All week this week we look at the life and writing of Greymouth writer and conservationist Peter Hooper (1919-91). Today: a memoir by Hooper's longtime friend and editor Brian Turner, taken from his speech at the launch in the weekend of Pat White's biography.
Brian Turner wades through the hyperbole in Brendon McCullum's biography, and recalls the old saying: "Self-praise is no recommendation.”
New verse by Otago writer and optimist Brian Turner.
In which Brian Turner looks out from the top of Black's Hill - over there's Mt St Bathans, way yonder's the Remarkables - and inspects the hand of man placed on the back of nature's trembling neck.
All week this week we feature a memoir of 2015 by a writer of distinction. Our fourth memoirist: Otuehua writer Brian Turner, who curiously tops the New Zealand fiction best-seller chart right now with his book Boundaries: People and Places of Central Otago - a collection of essays, which is to say non-fiction.
New verse by Otago writer Brian Turner.
As it Happens In Queen’s Crescent off Malden Road one’s not likely to meet many once famous men and women, or current nearly-notables in with a chance of becoming household names in Britain. ‘There comes a time,’ …
