Contains poems that addresses subjects as various as growing older, love's vagaries, clashes of culture, characters from history, the illuminations of art A- and the idea of happiness.
Deepened by Davis' dry wit and the formal rigour of his verse, these poems negotiate their way among personal and political divides. His own cosmopolitan background provides the context for many of the poems, yet he is concerned also with finding the humanly universal in the local and anecdotal.
