This volume is a collection of poems by the Dublin-based poet who was born in Derry. Many of the verses appeared first in Irish literary magazines such as The Belfast Review, Broadsheet, The Cork Review, Cyphers and Poetry Ireland Review, and in other literary journals such as Aquarius. It was the author's first published collection and was published by Beaver Row Press in Dublin in 1984. At that time the author worked as a journalist with The Irish Press newspaper in Dublin.