The ground gives, the walls crack and our
foundations are laid bare, revealing fragments of history, myth and memory we
had forgotten once were ours. Subsidence is about the post-industrial Black
Country landscape, where houses sink into old mines and the present collapses
into the past beneath our feet. Written just before and after the 2016 Brexit
referendum, these poems are love-songs to the dialect and culture of the Black
Country, odes to working-class communities, and laments for the unwanted, the strange
and off-kilter.