{"title":"Brook Emery","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrook Emery’s work delves deep into the intersections of \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, weaving narratives that explore creativity, identity, and the subtle tensions beneath everyday life. Readers can expect richly layered storytelling that combines atmospheric settings with incisive character studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the intricate dynamics in \u003cem\u003eCollusion\u003c\/em\u003e to the evocative imagery of \u003cem\u003eSea Scale\u003c\/em\u003e, Emery’s writing invites reflection on how art shapes and is shaped by human experience. These books offer a thoughtful journey through contemporary cultural landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sea-scale-by-brook-emery-9781922571090","title":"Sea Scale","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSea Scale\u003c\/i\u003e comprises thirty new poems and a generous selection from Brook Emery's previous five volumes. From \u003ci\u003eand dug my fingers in the sand\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book, to \u003ci\u003eHave Been and Are\u003c\/i\u003e, his most recent, reviewers have noted the fluency and tactility of his writing and the range of his thinking and allusions. His poetry is speculative, always wondering, occasionally playful, always trying to make sense of the complexities of the material, spiritual and rational worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe inter-weavings of mind and brain, language and culture, nature and society, time and memory are all swept up in this enquiry. His particular skill is to render abstract and intellectual issues in sensuous and physical imagery. Ever-present is the sea which, while sometimes performing metaphoric or symbolic functions, is always its material self: 'the glittering humpbacked sea, the thousand flickering things the mind lights on and tries to hold.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'His poems have a polished elegance that combines love of nature and wonder at the artistic impulse that keeps us alive to the potential to behave in a civilised manner towards each other. He is a first-class craftsman whose rhythms, like the flow of his language, seem effortless.' — Judges' comments, Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brook Emery's new collection, \u003ci\u003eHave Been and Are\u003c\/i\u003e, continues in the vein of what might be called the philosophical-demotic established in recent volumes such as \u003ci\u003eUncommon Light\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCollusion\u003c\/i\u003e. I don't think anyone in the cohort of contemporary Australian poetry does this quite as well as he does.' — Martin Duwell, \u003ci\u003eCordite Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432439890156,"sku":"9781922571090","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571090.jpg?v=1774555385"},{"product_id":"collusion-by-brook-emery-9780980852363","title":"Collusion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrook Emery's mode is enquiry, with a gentle insistence that enquiry matters. Fluent, occasionally epigrammatic, and showing a quiet humour, this is generous, open-minded poetry. As in previous collections, Emery's interest is in the intersections of the material, the spiritual and the rational.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems are loosely addressed as letters to some implied correspondent, who might be real, the self, or the unconscious. While \u003cem\u003eCollusion\u003c\/em\u003e is metaphysical in intent, the poems maintain a habit of sharp and tactile observation—the abstract becomes sensuous, and the intellectual makes friends with the physical. Swinging between affirmation and uncertainty, they weigh up the beauty and losses of the natural and human worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596023742700,"sku":"9780980852363","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9c6d7f60b14255e0743aa05aec5786f5.jpg?v=1777932051"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/brook-emery.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}