Contains Mild Peril Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Although much criticised for this

Although much criticised for this role

Gardiner is currently a visiting scholar at Boston College

She has been teaching history at Queen's University

Sophia Vasalou

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