why our culture can't seem to make progress and why no one seems to recognise the impending environmental crisis
The first ever collection in English of Ice Age Poetry
he went on to say: ‘the natural object is always the adequate symbol’
this book is a stunning and varied portrait of modern motherhood
sensual and grief-stricken
Modern Fog by Chris Emery Toby Olson why our culture can't seemEmery brings an unusually wide ranging poetic vocabulary to the encounters in Modern Fog, depicting wildlife on the Norfolk Broads or a multi storey car park with equal fluency. These are elegiac, tough minded poems of marked originality and scope. It's as if these attentive, atmospheric, musical poems can light up everywhere: seascapes, edgelands, interiors, even a carpark. Chris Emery's art is at once earthy, spiritual, dreamlike and exact. So