A fourth collection by a Cheshire-born, Yorkshire resident poet who combines poetic skill, deep thought and feeling in poetry that grows out of his social work and his sense of a self-impoverishing world.

"A blighted tree is said to be planet-struck. Similarly epilepsy, paralysis, lunacy and so on are attributed to the malignant influence of planets" – Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" Much of the material in Julian Turner's third collection w...

Julian Turner's "Crossing the Outskirts" was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize best first collection. In his second book he explores his familiar themes of identity and loss, and new, more personal ones –...

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.