Industrial Nation by Jean-Marc Hall is a poetry collection containing a hard-hitting personal critique of society's ills, contradictions and also his personal memories of the past. Thought provoking subjects including: English Culture, Multi-culturalism, A Journey Home, Examining your Day-to-day Life, Mid-life Crisis, The Food Con, The Military Machine, Losing and Remembering the Past, Tragic Lives, The Experience of Boxing, Peoples Fatalism, DIY culture, The Charity Con, TV and Reality. and Work. Jean-Marc's poetry has been influenced by the "Beat Generation" of writers such as Ginsberg and Kerouac, and in the 80's he regularly performed with the band Kit 185.