{"product_id":"modern-fog-9781911469544","title":"Modern Fog","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis wide-ranging and mercurial collection contains poems on landscapes, living rooms, love and pilgrimage, birds and animals, flowers, grandmothers, novelists and composers, car parks and coastal resorts - all interspersed with modern folk tales. At the centre of the book lies a striking twelve-part meditation on the medieval church of St. Helen's in Ranworth, Norfolk - known as the 'Cathedral of the Broads'. By turns bucolic, elegiac or enquiring, Emery's ludic poems depict our common experiences and anxieties - his conjured worlds always filled with mystery and beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Made me think of Herbert and 'The Altar' - a powerful contemplation of presence.\" - JOHN KINSELLA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" - ANNE ROUSE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Really, I admire it so much. It was almost a shock to read something so densely, richly packed with sounds and rhythms and words.\" - NIALL CAMPBELL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's as if these attentive, atmospheric, musical poems can light up everywhere: seascapes, edgelands, interiors, even a car park. 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ARC Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911469544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Chris Emery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44916293697717,"sku":"9781911469544","price":11.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_810a6200-a144-4e5e-a0c0-1ea2e39cf18c.jpg?v=1734449825","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/modern-fog-9781911469544","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}