Brian Turner served for seven years in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq from November 2003 with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. In 1999-2000 he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina with the 10th Mountain Division. His poetry was included in Voices in Wartime: The Anthology, published in conjunction with a feature-length documentary film. His collection Here, Bullet (Bloodaxe Books, 2007) has earned Turner nine major literary awards in the US, including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry. Since being shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2010 for Phantom Noise (Bloodaxe Books), he has published the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country (Jonathan Cape, 2014). More recent collections include the goodbye world poem and The Wild Delight of Wild Things. Other honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.
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This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2010. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce the shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2010. Judges Anne Stevenson (Chair), Bernardine Evaristo and Michael Symmons Roberts have chosen...
