The Derbyshire Poems brings back into print two important earlier collections (from the 1970s and 1980s) by Peter Riley, Lines on the Liver and Tracks and Mineshafts, together with the explanatory essays that were originally issued alongside the latter volume, and an uncollected sequence from the same period, 'Following the Vein', which belongs with the other poems dealing with the Peak District. This is an important volume which provides the bcakground to Riey's later forays into writing in, of, and under the landscape.