Poems: Seven Ages represents the rich diversity of Barbara Giles's work over the last twenty years. With the characteristic Giles eye for detail the poems deal variously with the ironies of love and life, age and ageing, life on the land, the passing of time, reconciliation and death. Throughout Giles's voice is one of wisdom, and in this, all her poetry's finest qualities are well in evidence: frankness, assurance, wit, playfulness and musicality.
