Tales and Truths

Tales and Truths is a deeply personal collection that ends with the poem 'A Tribute', which Barnes describes as 'a Truth woven in the fabric of my being.'

I let you into secrets
(in a subtle way I hope)
and make sort of confession of my inner thoughts.
So though I leave out drama,
mystery and noble themes,
I hope that in their telling they find in you too, a home.
(from 'A Tribute', Tales and Truths)

Tales and Truths is the last book in a series of four that also includes: Fragments, The Dreamers & Lost Voices, and Letters and Conjectures & Museum Musings.

'These collections of poetry came about almost spontaneously and kept me engaged and happy at a time when many options were closing on me due to illness. Many are the uses of adversity.' (Elizabeth Barnes)