boar

<p><em>boar</em> sees Tom Branfoot layer our contemporary polycrisis with the events leading up to the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Set in 14th-century Bradford owned by John of Gaunt boar illuminates the conditions of working-class existence that have remained fixed - under the guises of feudalism capitalism and neoliberalism - for centuries. Branfoot revivifies Middle English language and alliterative verse through the prism of contemporary experimental poetics with themes of land access ecology and class prevail. </p>