Crossing the Outskirts

Turner Julian

Selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2002, Julian Turner's outstanding debut was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

About the Author

Julian Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, near Manchester, in 1955 and was educated at New College, Oxford and Goldsmith's, London. He lives with his partner in Otley, West Yorkshire, and works as a writer and counsellor.

Reviews

Short-listed, 2002 Waterstone's Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection (Crossing the Outskirts)
Commended, 2011 Poetry Book Society (PBS): Choice – Spring (Planet-Struck)

"Julian Turner's poems are concerned with a refreshingly wide range of subjects, from the interpenetrating identities of these islands to the fugitive colours of actual love, all distinguished by a compassion as intense as their musicality. He can also be very funny; his celebration of the epic bathos of golf has already been identified as a classic anthology piece of the future" – Ian Duhig Awards won by Julian Turner

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