Alan Macfarlane came across some of his mother's poems scattered through her extensive papers. Only two of these have been published, one in an Indian newspaper in 1943, the other as a song by the folk-singer Vashti Bunyan in the 1970s. Iris's voice can be heard clearly in these and other poems. She read poetry avidly and had been writing poems from her early teens. The poems on love are grouped under 'Romantic Love', 'Motherly Love' and 'Neighbourly Love', and these are supplemented by a section of poems on her legacy, both from the past, and the one she wished to pass on to her children.