Modern Fog

Emery 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 often, the language is irresistible: 'Above us, in its immaculate empire, / a bird whirrs up and saves / its eyes for the militant hour.'"-Moniza Alvi

Emery 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 often, the language is irresistible: ''Above us, in its immaculate empire, / a bird whirrs up and saves / its eyes for the militant hour.''"

-Moniza Alvi

• | Author: Chris Emery
• | Publisher: Arc Publications
• | Publication Date: Feb 12, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781911469544
• | ISBN-10: 1911469541