Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock John Greening fashionable London

fashionable London

recounting the extraordinary in the voice of the everyday

now an adult’s eyes and across the gulf that education

found abandoned in a peat bog in the Netherlands

Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock John Greening fashionable LondonContains 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