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Lines, fuelled by lager and cheese rolls: Everything Crash by Tim Wells
KYRA HANSON reviews Tim Wells's latest collection Everything Crash
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Culture was politicised, workers were striking, the youth were out of work and out of luck, but the reggae was blaring and the drinks were cheap. In some ways a lot has changed since the Ethiopians’ 1968 hit Everything Crash hit the airwaves, in other ways it’s a fitting title for Tim Wells’s new poetry collection.
Wells is a necessary voice of dissent amongst a narrative dominated by austerity, high rents, funding cuts and Tube strikes.
His poetry, rooted in the politically charged aspect of reggae culture, resonates with the “people’s music” which provided the soundtrack to a disenfranchised black youth growing up in the ’70s and ’80s.
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