A second poet is Iraqi Adnan Mohsen with poems of “the ordinary
Illustrated throughout with photographs of surviving examples
only when the book is closed
convicted of murder on a manufactured confession in 1983
they ask what it means to escape the pull of gravity and blaze your own bright
Modern Fog Sandra Hoffmann A second poet is IraqiEmery 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