They capture what it feels like to come of age within this gendered society
he went on to say: ‘the natural object is always the adequate symbol’
by bringing these poems into English
The first ever collection in English of Ice Age Poetry
this book is a stunning and varied portrait of modern motherhood
Modern Fog by Chris Emery Toby Olson They capture what it feelsEmery 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