which ask how we can still find joy on a ruined planet
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This new dual-language selection is mainly drawn from two other collections
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Modern Fog by Chris Emery Rupi Kaur which ask how we canEmery 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