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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
List of contents
- Tapers
- Crear Entertainments
- Black Flake
- The Journey
- The Candidates
- Endless Banks
- Loose Meat
- Sewer Music for the Social Bargain
- From the Centre
- Dog Face
- December
- Cold Twig Men of the Future
- Saturniidae
- Pornographic Leg Song
- Bone Merchant
- Clan Tinnitus
- The Impresario
- Henry Purcell's Love Song
- The Mouths of Sweet Virginia
- My Heraldic Ape
- The Spiders of the Just
- Grand Ole Arm Opry
- Class Narratives for Art
- Broadcasts
- Gingham Debt Relief
- The Curtain
- Municipal Care Foundation
- George's Song
- The Lermontov
- Yellow Shattered Waters
- The Wolves are on the Dark Beef
- Blemish
- Lemnos Revisited
About the author
Chris Emery is a director of Salt. He has published three collections of poetry, a writer's guide, an anthology of art and poems, and edited editions of Emily Brontë, Keats and Rossetti. His work has been widely published in magazines and anthologised, most recently in
Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe). He is a contributor to
The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing, edited by David Morley and Philip Neilsen. He lives in Cromer, North Norfolk.
