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Review: Occasional: 50 Poems - Owen Marshall [New Zealand]:
What's this? A book of poems from the short story writer acknowledged by absolutely everyone as New Zealand's best? It smacks just a little of greed, as if Stephen Fleming suddenly decided to join the New Zealand netball squad or Jonah Lomu had an abrupt bash at hockey. Surely mastery of one code is enough without laying siege to them all.

But Owen Marshall enters the field with such modesty, making so few claims for himself as a poet, that most of the home crowd will want to cheer him on. Besides, he has plenty of antecedents. Many top-notch fiction writers have tried their hands at verse. Dig into the darker reaches of their bibliographies and you'll discover poems by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Aldous Huxley, F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. [...]

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