Damian Smyth’s poetry focuses on a handful of streets in his home town of Downpatrick in Northern Ireland, where he was born in 1962. His other collections are Downpatrick Races (2000), The Down Recorder (2004), Lamentations (2010), Market Street (2010), Mesopotamia (2014) and English Street (2018).

Templar Poetry is an independent publisher, established in 2005 and based in the heart of Derbyshire. They publish poetry collections, pamphlets, anthologies along with occasional fiction and non-fiction.