Boar by Tom Branfoot Kendel Hippolyte — Robert Sheppard

— Robert Sheppard

To Fold the Evening Star gathers work from eight key collections

and what most poems about art wouldn’t even dare to

and was the first poet to attempt to enter the world of the indigenous Nicaraguans

Boar by Tom Branfoot Kendel Hippolyte — Robert Sheppardboar 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, in