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Tony Turner ( - 2013) Tony Turner lives in Berkshire and is a retired industrial chemist. A lifelong writer, he has concentrated on poetry since his early retirement and has had over 180 poems published in a variety of publications, including poetry magazines Acumen, Assent, Envoi, Equinox, Interpreters House, Iota, Orbis, Other Poetry, Penine Platform, Poems in the Waiting Room, Poetry Nottingham, Pulsar, Quattrocento, Reach, South, Staple, Tears in the Fence, Weyfarers and Les Murray’s Australian magazine, Quadrant. He has published six collections and a verse sequence, Oxford 1953-57, under his own Cherrycroft Press imprint and his poems have appeared in Gerard Benson’s anthology, Does W Trouble You? and The MCC Anthology of Cricket Verse. His published output to 2005 was reviewed by Frances Wilson in South 33. He was founding editor of the magazine Rhyme & Reason in Beaconsfield, now in its 20th year. Chairman of Chiltern Writers Group from 1995-96, he helped run their writing competitions and edited their anthologies. He has been a member of the management team of South magazine since 2008. Tony has been Chairman of the workshopping group, Metroland Poets in Amersham, Bucks, since August 2001 and is a member of Temys Poets and The Poetry Society. He regularly attends poetry festivals, workshops and courses, such as Arvon, and enjoys the sharing of poetry with other enthusiasts. A great believer in the spoken poem, he has given readings of his work in a variety of venues across the south from Ware to Penzance. His poems were regularly included in A Time For Verse, the lunchtime readings of The Wildcard Theatre Company at the Wycombe Swan Theatre, High Wycombe.
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