{"product_id":"modern-fog-paperback","title":"Modern Fog - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Emery\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42686166007871,"sku":"9781911469544","price":19.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/45fa4edb4a04eb7edb6ca1536e0e9e2a.webp?v=1764974045","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/modern-fog-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}