Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock Jo Brandon and blooming

and blooming

ageing and mortality

which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem

that is certain

Some are shaped by word-music

Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock Jo Brandon and bloomingContains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate political, environmental, economic engenders its own nervy music. These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar. It is a collection that abounds in loss, in a sense of being