Through Your Eyes : Poems Early and Late

When Owen Leeming's first and only New Zealand poetry collection, Venus is Setting, was published by Caxton Press in 1972, the author had, as editorRobert McLean writes in his introduction, long since quit New Zealand for life, love, and work elsewhere. Although he returned to New Zealand in the early sixties after travel and work as a broadcaster in London, where he participated in The Group alongside fellow expat Peter Porter, Leeming soon left again. Eventually he made his home in France, where he has spent the best part of four decades, latterly working as a translator with OECD after a series of consultancies with UNESCO.