Along the River Run is a story of guilt and retribution played out amid the streets
A second poet is Iraqi Adnan Mohsen with poems of “the ordinary
Illustrated throughout with photographs of surviving examples
they ask what it means to escape the pull of gravity and blaze your own bright
But they also contain a huge range of talent and ability
Modern Fog Sandra Hoffmann Along the River Run isEmery 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