Philip Robinson, born in Larne in 1946, spent his childhood in Boneybefore in east Antrim, and has lived for more than 30 years in the Ards Peninsula, county Down. He is the author of as well as four Ulster-Scots 'kail-yard' novels. His poetry in this collection also explores the fast-disappearing 'Old Light' of his native Ulster-Scots community in whose language they are written. is a window into that world - its language, humour, culture, religion and politics.