Afterbody by Medha Singh Helen Calcutt Contains Mild Peril is a

Contains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety

This is the self-defeating shout of the guards in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi

So hang your stockings

’ Malika Booker

Afterbody by Medha Singh Helen Calcutt Contains Mild Peril is aMedha Singhs poems deal with grief, absence, love and loss, often engaging with the concrete and small as a funnel for the larger ideas that govern us. Her work relies on image and music more than movement and action, which is really a way of thinking of identity and place as rooted in ones experience of language the sounds inside the voice of your mother, the words on pages of school books all have a way of affecting the internal music of our