Books: The Friday Poem – Chum, by Brian Turner

Brian Turner

20 Nov 2015

Culture

Poetry for the soul

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Chum

Likes, friends, the more chum

we spread the more our pond

fills up with eager, hungry fish.

Brian Turner

Brian Turner is a writer who lives in Oturehua. He has played international hockey for New Zealand, worked as a golf caddy around the world, and is the author of books of essays and verse. Brian was born in Dunedin in 1946.

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