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Radio Nostalgia examines the borders of war, social exile, and manufactured liberty expressed through corporate media. The poet's world is mediated through news anchors, oracles and heralds, where simulated events are historicised through narrative and consumed as product. Chris Emery's auditory imagination is lurid and comically compelling, with imagery the sets the reader reeling with the terrifying beauty and sinister power of it all."As palliative as a corpse in a junkyard, Radio Nostalgia doesn't relax you so much as it opens a way into wakefulness. With a stunning lexicon, short phrases stuffed with grit, petrol and spleen, Chris Emery orchestrates a complex, resistant music into one to three-beat lines as our 'countdown to armaments'." —Forrest Gander
Chris Emery was born in 1963 in Manchester. He has published four collections of poetry, a writer ’s guide, an anthology of art and poems, and edited selections of Emily Brontë, Keats and Rossetti. He works in publishing and lives in Norfolk.
TapersCrear EntertainmentsBlack FlakeThe JourneyThe CandidatesEndless BanksLoose MeatSewer Music for the Social BargainFrom the Centre Dog FaceDecemberCold Twig Men of the FutureSaturniidaePornographic Leg SongBone MerchantClan TinnitusThe ImpresarioHenry Purcell's Love SongThe Mouths of Sweet VirginiaMy Heraldic ApeThe Spiders of the JustGrand Ole Arm OpryClass Narratives for ArtBroadcastsGingham Debt ReliefThe CurtainMunicipal Care FoundationGeorge's SongThe LermontovYellow Shattered WatersThe Wolves are on the Dark BeefBlemishLemnos Revisited
… has complex roots. The poems owe much to cinema … a distinctive sonic resonance…word music which sets his work apart. In these poems Emery has discovered a language which articulates the complex and nightmarish ramifications of the war on terror…
