Occasional 50 Poems by Owen Marshall

Contents of Collection

Reflections at the Mafioso Café

Old Keys

Pukeko

South Island Prayer

The bougai bird

Dansey's Pass

So this is where

Somesuch reunion

The enduring premonition

Old Dunedin

Love

Overheard overheard

Garavan

Disposition

The wistful amateur

Mechanical grief

Advertising life

Au fait

Daughter

The Diogenes club

My tribe stirs

Cause célèbre

On eating condensed milk

Canterbury nor'wester

Back to the Wekaweka

Opposing platitudes

At Pergamum

Marlborough

Awakening

Arts Centre, Christchurch

Keeping good company

The judge's Venetian dream

On the solace of John Cheever's Journals

Marching song

For Hugh

Nada

Ingratitude

Lover's leap

Doorstop men

Lake Alexandrina

Grape iwi

Relativity and the solar system

In a small place

The great egalitarian

Bad Sienna

Missing person file - Jane Ella

Gentle things

Even words grow old

Driving to Janet's funeral, 31 January 2004

Off campus day