{"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","brand":"ARC Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50871764156690,"sku":"9781911469544","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ddd74973-0fda-4d35-8ad6-c96b1dad7378.jpg?v=1737851188","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/modern-fog-9781911469544","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}