After keeping her age a secret to keep herself in work, Pamela Gillilan "came out" with her final collection - published on her 80th birthday. Like Kurosawa's film from which she took her title, these poems are about individual recall, the chameleon quality of memory, and so also about deception and self-deception. Pamela Gillilan's best-known poems are the incredibly moving elegies to her late husband - published in The All-Steel Traveller: New & Selected Poems (1994).