Modern Fog by Chris Emery Toby Olson he went on to say:

he went on to say: ‘the natural object is always the adequate symbol’

why our culture can't seem to make progress and why no one seems to recognise the impending environmental crisis

They capture what it feels like to come of age within this gendered society

this book is a stunning and varied portrait of modern motherhood

Cat Jeoffry is a self-contained passage from Christopher Smart’s much longer work Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb)

Modern Fog by Chris Emery Toby Olson he went on to say: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