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View From the South - Owen Marshall, Photographs by Grahame Sydney

Contents of Collection

South Island Prayer

Three Yellows

Danseys Pass

All Day Bay

Monarch

Bishop to Square

Juxtaposition

Clyde

Pelorus Bridge

Paddock Night

Dunstan Memory

Shire Horses

At Ruby Bay

Fall

Wind Song

Refuge

Hostun in the Department of Drome

Small Trees in Hunan

Steep Street - Thorndon

Chorus Line Hypothesis

Mallard Ruse

Copper Beech

Storm over Mount Peel

Simple Rhyme Chimes

Mist Skaters

Night Rain

Winter Sun

The Big Snow

Cambrian Valley

The White Clock

Dunstan Dog in Winter

Criccieth

Southern Spring

Magnolia Cleopatra

Birdstrike

Heel before the Wind

Reverie Cascade

Animated Landscape

Location, Location

Bannockburn

The People Whom You Love

Insect in Amber

Back to the Wekaweka

Blowing up Frogs with a Straw

The Mutt

In Praise of Oddity

Riflemen

Switching On

Casuals

The Advent of Billy Graham

Flashback

Wild Cattle: Wekaweka

To a Daughter

Mrs Florentine

Wearing Things Out

Rememberance

Particulars

Visage

Through a Window

From the back it was just like you

Aftermath Blues

Grandchild

School Fair Melange

The Shadow Board

Whatsisname

Lee Valley

Segue

Keeping Good Company

Customary Behaviour

At the Movies

Totems

Norseman

Little Man

Bell Time: Tainui, Dunedin

For Jack

Taking Down Christmas Cards

Local Knowledge

Funeral in the Rain

Small Child on a Trampoline

Abul-Abbas and My Father

Bow Deep before the Tiger

Laughter of the Gods

A Rooster for Asclepsius

Mycenae

Felix

Currency

Tuoro

Amunsden's Dogs

Jumbo

Tortoise and Hare

Advice to Freddie

Gingerbread Man

Found Poem

Lethologica

They Say

Haiku Sequence

Book Launch

Conflation

Incident

In Defiance of Poverty

Monk Sherborne

The Familiar

Barrow Man

Roaring Girl

Driving to Janet's Funeral, 31 January 2004

Meeting John Cheever

Muddy Creek Cafe

The Slam Dunk Poet

The Lebanese Flag

Piano Man

Driving with the Big O

Still Life

Myself Looking Back

The Real Life of the Tourist

Snow Poem 3: Metaphysical Pole

Where Does Love Go?

The Judge's Venetian Dream

The Enduring Premonition

Past Tense

Scars Have No Feeling

Bathing as for a Lover

Temptation

Apple Barrel Philosophy

Subterfuge

Lemon Tree

Something More

Touching Down

Superhero

Sea Anchor

Release

Clear Distinction

The world is not made for us

Love

Early Christianity

Night Walk

Dark Woman's Smile

The Optimist's Crown

Dreams

The Homily Man Reflects on the Religion of Despair

Drummer Dream

Missed Turnings

Looking into the Sun

Aliens

Images

Time Travellers

Black Cat with Sapphire Eyes

White Dog

Blue Moon

Thistledown Farewell

Evening

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