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Brian Turner
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Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Published
October 2010
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Brian Turner
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Paperback / softback
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Published
October 2010
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Shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize
Brian Turner's first book of poems, Here, Bullet, was a harrowing, first-hand account of the Iraq War by a soldier-poet. In Phantom Noise he pumps up the volume as he faces and tries to deal with the traumatic aftermath of war. Flashbacks explode the daily hell of Baghdad into the streets and malls of peaceful California, at the same time sending Turner's imagination reeling back to Iraq. If he thought he had written all he could of his Iraq experiences in Here, Bullet, he was mistaken, for what he saw and felt there affected him so profoundly that more poems had to be written, years later, from a place of apparent safety.
Brian Turner writes a powerful poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill. Like Keith Douglas's poems from the North African desert in the Second World War, Turner's testament from the war in Iraq offers unflinchingly accurate description but no moral judgement, leaving the reader to draw any conclusions. Repetitive media reports show little of people's daily experience of the war and occupation. In Phantom Noise, as in Here, Bullet, we see and feel the devastatingly surreal reality of everyday life and death for soldiers and civilians through the eyes of an eloquent writer who served in the US Army for seven years, with a year's tour of duty in Iraq as an infantry team leader.
Author
Brian Turner
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Published
October 2010
Weight
119g
Dimensions
140 x 216 x 6 mm
ISBN
9781852248765
ISBN-10
1852248769
Eden Code
6217855
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Author/Creator: Brian Turner
ISBN: 9781852248765
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Release Date: October 2010
Weight: 119g
Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 6 mm
Eden Code: 6217855