Brian Lindsay Turner ONZM (4 March 1944 – 5 February 2025) was a New Zealand poet, author, environmental campaigner and field hockey player.

[2] He played hockey for New Zealand in the 1960s and was a senior cricketer and veteran road cyclist of note.

[3][4] His writing included columns and reviews for daily and weekly newspapers, articles, given radio talks, and written scripts for TV programmes.

His publications included cricket books with his brother Glenn Turner, the former NZ cricket captain, essays, books on fishing, the high country, and eight collections of poetry.

[4] In late 1999, Turner moved to Oturehua, a town of about 40 people in the Maniototo region of Central Otago.