Following the Fall of whatever-it-was-that-fell in 1990, Just as Blue offers a view of contemporary history as seen from somewhere between Moscow and Middlesbrough, anger and dismay, between the Restoration of the Stuarts, the Fall of France and the end of the Cold War. With a bit of help from Virgil, Shelley, Bunyan, Lord Rochester, Louis Aragon, Randall Swingler and the Welsh miner-poet Mogg Williams, these poems look back on the final years of a terrible century in the certain knowledge that the new one is going to be just as bad.