Contains Mild Peril Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Although much criticised for this

Although much criticised for this role

Linda France

who died unexpectedly on 22 October

Tony Curtis is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he directs an MPhil in Writing

She has been teaching history at Queen's University

Contains Mild Peril Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Although much criticised for thisContains 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