{"id":8401,"date":"2025-03-17T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8401"},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:46:40","slug":"brian-turner-2","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/brian-turner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <em>Voices in Wartime: The Anthology<\/em>, published in conjunction with a feature-length documentary film. His collection <em>Here, Bullet<\/em> (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 <em>Phantom Noise <\/em>(Bloodaxe Books), he has published the memoir <em>My Life as a Foreign Country<\/em> (Jonathan Cape, 2014). More recent collections include <em>the goodbye world poem<\/em> and <em>The Wild Delight of Wild Things<\/em>. Other honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianturner.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.brianturner.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8087,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8401","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}