Facing up to personal grief and the horrors of war

Brian Turner secretly wrote his first collection of poetry while in Iraq with the US army. He will read this week in Cork, writes Colette Sheridan.

The battlefield of personal grief is what now concentrates poet and US army veteran, Brian Turner, who is in Cork mentoring writers as the inaugural John Montague International Poetry Fellow. He will also read from and discuss his work at the Cork International Poetry Festival this week.