Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock Jo Brandon and blooming

and blooming

ageing and mortality

This new collection written in his late-80s finds him deeply immersed in reflection on the passage of time and the frailty and sustaining power of memory

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

Philip Levine and Denise Levertov

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