My latest article for The Connor Post is now online – http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-brexit-and-brexistence.html
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New review of Displacement, by poet Liam Guitar
The June issue of Chronicles contains a top-notch review of Displacement, by the poet Liam Guitar (whose Anhaga is just out, and highly recommended). Liam says, “Turner’s descriptions of London are one of the highlights…The city becomes a character: old, vibrant, curled along its river, evoked in swift effective sentences creating precise and memorable images. The prose… Continue reading
Latest article for Chronicles – “Pity Poor Bradford
The June issue of Chronicles contains my article “Pity Poor Bradford” – a travelogue about the West Riding and ideas of the English North, touching on everything from the Normans to Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill and Peter Davidson via Civil War apparitions and the Industrial and Immigration Revolutions. Not available on line, sadly – but then… Continue reading
The Tories and Trump – my first column for The Connor Post
This is my first column for The Connor Post, an impressive news and opinion aggregation site – this one on Tory attitudes to Trump – http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-tories-taking-on-and-to-trump.html
John Aubrey – remembrancer and forward-thinker
JOHN AUBREY – REMEMBRANCER AND FORWARD-THINKER John Aubrey, My Own Life Ruth Scurr, London: Chatto & Windus, 2015, hb., 518pp, £25 Just as English painting is renowned for portraiture, so English letters have been illuminated by some of the greatest biographers ever to burnish world literature. After Boswell, the best-known is John Aubrey (1626-1697), whose… Continue reading
Testing for humanity – The Plague Dogs
TESTING FOR HUMANITY The Plague Dogs (book 1977, film 1982) I came across by chance recently a DVD of The Plague Dogs, a 1982 animation of Richard Adams’ bestselling 1977 novel. I was catapulted immediately back to childhood, when I had read the book shortly after publication, with a sense of distress and anger I… Continue reading
Star Wars, star wares
Star Wars, star wares How Star Wars Conquered the Universe Chris Taylor, London: Head of Zeus, 2015 In 1977, like millions of other prepubescents, I trooped excitedly along to a cinema to see the first instalment of Star Wars. I was twelve, anxious about acne, fond of sci-fi comics, and sick with ruthless fantasies about remaking… Continue reading
First review of A Modern Journey
The first review of A Modern Journey has just appeared. My thanks to Edward Dutton and Quadrapheme for this handsome write-up http://www.quadrapheme.com/derek-turner-a-modern-journey/
New article by me, comparing Camp of the Saints with Sea Changes
This is a new article by me, in which I look at the similarities of and differences between Camp of the Saints and Sea Changes – http://www.radixjournal.com/journal/2015/10/27/sea-changes
New review of Displacement
An excellent review of Displacement at the Radix site – “a moving literary look into the heart of our forgotten people” http://www.radixjournal.com/blog/2015/10/27/displacement