Phantom Noise
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 "PhantomNoise" he pumps up the volume as he faces and tries to deal withthe traumatic aftermath of war. Flashbacks explode the daily hell ofBaghdad into the streets and malls of peaceful California, at thesame time sending Turner's imagination reeling back to Iraq. If hethought he had written all he could of his Iraq experiences in"Here, Bullet", he was mistaken, for what he saw and felt thereaffected him so profoundly that more
eBook, English, 2011
Bloodaxe Books, London, 2011