Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany

Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany - Brian Turner

Godwit, ISBN 978-1-86962-142-1, $44.99 pbk

Brian Turner is one of this country's best-known and best-loved poets and also one of its most determined conservationists. In this beautifully illustrated anthology he brings together both old and new essays, columns, articles and poetry that concentrate on the wild places and outdoor pursuits he loves and of which he is such an unabashed, articulate and passionate champion.

Brian Turner is also a fisherman, cyclist, climber, hunter and ardent conservationist. The South Island back country is inextricably linked to his creative life, and in this collection of essays, yarns, poems, tall tales and reflections he captures the beauty of that world, the joy being out in it brings, and the threats to its future he fears.

He was the Te Mata Poet Laureate in 2005. Brian Turner is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and a memoir. He lives in Oturehua, in Central Otago's Maniototo district.