Life expectancy begins to fall Ebrahim al-Khaldi

Life expectancy begins to fall Ebrahim al-KhaldiIs your retirement plan dying in the climate wars? Are you getting on with things in the meantime? Life expectancy begins to fall is a book of poems about how it feels to normalise an apocalypse. It is not a call to arms, it is a poets book about the weight we all carry uncompromisingly curious, emotional and authentic.

“Rhian Edwards makes the language sing and dance

but also setbacks due

brings together poems that reach through language to the mystery of our being

He has published poetry and critical essays on Irish literature and postcolonial studies: his book Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History (2004) won the Donald J

Haunting and atmospheric

of waking “one morning and the Caribbean was gone”

Praise for 'Verbum et Verbum':

These are poems about the weakness

Antonia Baum – Exceprt from the novel Completely Lifeless

In his first short story collection

It’s a book about the morality of politics and the mortality of us all

He has also edited a book on the environment in Wales