Julian Turner (born 1955) is a British poet and mental health worker. Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, then moved to Cheshire in 1955. He now lives in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, with his partner and their daughter. He was educated at New College, Oxford and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Turner is the Chief Executive of Mind in Leeds and a Trustee of Survivors' Poetry, an organisation "Promoting poetry by survivors of mental distress".
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- Julian Turner (born 1955) is a British poet and mental health worker. Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, then moved to Cheshire in 1955. He now lives in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, with his partner and their daughter. He was educated at New College, Oxford and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Turner is the Chief Executive of Mind in Leeds and a Trustee of Survivors' Poetry, an organisation "Promoting poetry by survivors of mental distress". His poems have been published in periodicals including Poetry London, The Reater, and The Realto, and in The Ring of Words: Poems from the Daily Telegraph Arvon International Poetry Competition 1998 In 1993, he won First Prize in the Nortwords poetry competition for his poem Whale Bone. In 2002, his collection Crossing the Outskirts was published by Anvil Press Poetry. It was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation (2002) and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) (2002). A number of poems in the collection deal with mental health issues. For example, 'Tennis Ball' is about suicide and 'The Director's Cut' is about self-harm. The poems in this collection observe traditional conventions of rhyme and metre. In 2004, he won a Bridport Supplementary Prize for his poem 'The Gas Poker'. His second collection, Orphan Sites, was published by Anvil Press Poetry in 2006.
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- Julian Turner (born 1955) is a British poet and mental health worker. Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, then moved to Cheshire in 1955. He now lives in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, with his partner and their daughter. He was educated at New College, Oxford and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Turner is the Chief Executive of Mind in Leeds and a Trustee of Survivors' Poetry, an organisation "Promoting poetry by survivors of mental distress".
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