W.G. McNeice was born in Castleisland, County Kerry in 1930 and worked with a local authority in Tralee before moving to Bray, Co Wicklow in 1972..
His poetry has been published including in The Times Literary Supplement and New Irish Writing.. He has won a number of prizes at the Listowel Writers’ Week.
This collection of poems has many Kerry themes and locations. McNeice has included poems called Derrymore, Seascapes Fenit and The Swans at Blennerville.
Also the book was published in 1983 by The Kerryman in Tralee.