Just Arrived: "Here, Bullet" & "Phantom Noise" by Brian Turner from Bloodaxe Books

As I tweeted on Thursday, I received a parcel from Bloodaxe Books (UK) that I suspected contained poetry—and on opening it I was proven right.

The books are Here Bullet and Phantom Noise, both by US poet, Brian Turner. I first heard of Brian when I was driving to one of the Autumn Poetry Readings of the Canterbury Poets' Collective in 2009 and tuned into a public radio documentary on contemporary war poetry. Brian Turner was one of the featured poets and I heard his poem AB Negative (The...