Episode 10 - Brian Turner Part 3

In part three of my epic conversation with Brian Turner, we begin by discussing how the Soldier Poet bears witness, 
----more----and how ideas of complicity distinguish this from other kinds of war writing. 

We then moved on to:

• what inspired Turner to write about war
• the stories being told by Iraqis about the war
• the war as perceived by the Generals and soldiers on the ground
• Mosul, the media and bearing witness
• how the war will be assessed by historians
• drones, video games and technology
• war films and the reality of film
• war, boredom and the intensity of the moment
• how poetry investigates the moment
• suicide and stress of war
• what Turner can and can't talk about
• 'the war has a tombstone over it'
• why the Iraq war has not ended
• Turner's own return home
• did you suffer any post-traumatic stress
• 'If you're going to send people off to war, they are going to come back with baggage'
• Veterans in need of help
• how we treat our veterans reflects the health of our nation