Education
University of Oxford.
University of Oxford.
He is the author of two full-length epic science fiction poems, The New World and Genesis. Several books of poetry. And a number of other works.
He has been called "a major poet of our time" and "a universal scholar - a rare find in a world of over-specialization - whose work transects and borrows from several rather disparate fields." Turner is currently Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Previous academic positions included the University of California, Santa Barbara (assistant professor 1967-1972), Kenyon College (associate professor 1972-1985), and the University of Exeter in England (visiting professor 1984-1985). From 1978-1982 he was editor of The Kenyon Review.
"In Hadean Eclogues, Frederick Turner.., an interdisciplinary scholar and devotee of the classics, searches for a modern Arcadia, the sacred and taboo gateway between heaven and Earth that inspired the poets of old. He finds it in a startling place - the emerging suburbs in the cities of his adopted home, Texas." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune Genesis, an Epic Poem, by Frederick Turner.
But Turner is an exceptionally skillful poet, who when he wrote this book had already completed a fascinating Mars novel, A Double Shadow (1978), and another fine book-length narrative poem, The New World (1985).
Here, the Olympian grandeur of the characters and plot match well with the Martian landscape, which under its rapid terraforming is still recognizably a place established in the popular imagination by the Viking landers. The result is a triumph that deserves to be better known." --Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Spectrum.