RADIO NOSTALGIA
Arc UK / Irish Poetry series
Radio Nostalgia uses a range of personas and historical locations to examine
our sense of community and what our lives can mean. Reporting back from the
frontiers of conflicts and consumerism, we enter a world mediated through
news anchors, oracles and narrators, where often violent simulations of
national conviction fall dangerously short of being human.
"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'. He refuses to look away from the tableau vivant of degradation.
'It is (as promised) all here for you now', he writes, a twenty-first
century so wounded and blout that only the language that crawls over it
shimmers with its implicit hope for transformation and redemption." Forrest
Gander
Paperback
92 pages
November 2005
ISBN 1-904614-19-1
Price: £8.99
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