Modern Fog by Chris Emery Toby Olson They capture what it feels

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

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

‘I enjoyed the deadpan-ness of the voice and the ways in which it established stereotypes and beauty standards

by bringing these poems into English

sensual and grief-stricken

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