Non-Dog When, in January 2008, Harry Owen moved to the Eastern Cape from England he had no idea what to expect of life there. Indeed, some of his closest friends had warned him against going to live in such a 'dangerous' place. But now he knows that, for all its many problems, South Africa is one of the world's most stunningly beautiful and genuinely miraculous places. The poems in this, his fourth collection, represent his response to that realisation.
	Five Books of Marriage Five Books of Marriage, Harry Owen's powerful third full collection of poetry, explores the course of a relationship from its early days through the sadness and pain of a marriage's breakdown and divorce to the finding again of a life and happiness beyond. This poetry is filled with anger and joy, confusion and understanding, despair and glowing optimism. It is both intensely individual and entirely recognisable, Owen's finely crafted verse coaxing the universal from the personal in a celebration of life's possibilities.
	The Music Of Ourselves Centred on Harry Owen's year as the inaugural Poet Laureate for Cheshire, this exciting collection displays a breadth of imagination ranging from the serious to the light-hearted and from Cheshire to New South Wales. One of Owen's most persistent influences is the dwindling natural environment - its beauties, dangers, mysteries - and several of these poems explore ideas based on what he fervently believes is the most elemental of all our relationships: that with the world of which we are an inseparable part yet which we seem determined to destroy.
	Searching for Machynlleth Harry's first collection of poetry, published in 2000, Searching for Machynlleth ranges from alchemy to adoption, bats to butterflies, school gardens to soundbites and from the Dyfi Valley to Death Valley. This is a special limited reprinting for the 2003 Chester Literature Festival.
	A Window in my Diary You can now hear Harry Owen performing his work on a poetry CD, A Window in my Diary, available from July 2006. It includes poems from both of his published collections as well as others not heard before and features musical accompaniment by the multi-talented Carl Brunsdon.