The Morris Oxford All-Steel Traveller was in its heyday when Pamela Gillilan gave up writing poetry in the early 1950s. Then, for a quarter of a century, she wrote nothing, until the death of her husband prompted a sequence of incredibly moving elegies which won her national recognition. This book contains poems she wrote over the next fifteen years, when the name All-Steel Traveller has stayed with her, becoming emblematic of the progress of a life. The All-Steel Traveller is armoured against hard knocks, a shell against intrusion. But it also welcomes passengers, takes on hitch-hikers or companions, and everyone exchanges myths and stories as the scenery slides by. All Steel-Traveller is an up-and-down tale of hills and dales, love and grief, sharing and self-containment, a testament of courage.