This Writing Life
Episodes
Thursday Apr 16, 2015
Episode 09 - Brian Turner reads from My Life as a Foreign Country
Thursday Apr 16, 2015
Thursday Apr 16, 2015
Brian Turner reads and discusses a passage from his memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country. Tim Adams' review in the Observer is: here.Brian Turner's website is: here.
Thursday Apr 16, 2015
Episode 08 - Brian Turner Part 2
Thursday Apr 16, 2015
Thursday Apr 16, 2015
In the second part of my lengthy conversation with the poet Brian Turner we begin by discussing language - in particular pejorative terms like 'Haji'. Turner moves from this, through coining 'otherise', to recall his own experiences in Iraq.
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Episode 07 - Brian Turner Part 1
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Brian Turner has become world famous for his war poetry, which was largely inspired by a year-long tour
of Iraq with the 3rd Stryker
Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. The ostensible reason for our meeting, however, was first sustained work of prose, a memoir entitled My Life as a Foreign Country, which