Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock John Greening Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever is

Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever is a grimoire for feminine selfhood in a world where a sense of self is flimsy

my heart / leaps up

found abandoned in a peat bog in the Netherlands

Slakki is Old Norse for a shallow depression among hills: ‘Not much of a valley

Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock John Greening Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever isContains 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