Bleep

Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s unofficial poet laureate Richard Dawson travels from the muck and mire of 6th century Britain (on 2017’s year-end best-of-list contender Peasant) to the not-so distant future. Look closer at 2020 and you’ll find the uncertainty of the isles’ ancient past shares a postcode with Dawson’s present, a time marked by poorly funded unemployment offices, societal division and the struggles just to survive into the next day.