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Turnbull was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the North of England and in Canada . He studied Natural Science at Cambridge University and graduated in Medicine from the University Of Pennsylvania in 1951.

In 1957, Turnbull started Migrant Press, one of the first British-run presses to focus on poets in the '' (1999) and '' Anthology Of Twentieth-Century British And Irish Poetry '' (2001).

He returned to Edinburgh in the early 1990s. In this city, he worked on what he termed kinetic poems; texts for installation in which the movement of the reader and/or of the text became part of the reading experience. He died on a visit to Herefordshire of a sudden brain haemorrhage.


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • ''Trio'' - 1954 ((with Phyllis Webb and Eli Mandel )

  • ''A Gathering of Poems 1950-1980'' - 1983

  • ''Rattle of Scree: Poems'' - 1997




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