Local Interest by Emily Hasler Penguin Putnam The world here seems to

The world here seems to be steadily vanishing

the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world

these poems raise ethical and human issues to which no simple answers can be found

to read a collection that acknowledges with such tenderness and humour that the human species is on the brink of becoming natural history

while ‘Wires’ takes telegraph wires as the central image for the geographical distance separating her from Pasternak

Local Interest by Emily Hasler Penguin Putnam The world here seems toSituated where salt and freshwater meet, where floods and fields 'mingle parts', Emily Hasler's second collection exposes the dailiness of disaster to chart the constantly shifting courses of rivers and lives. Taking its name from the sections of libraries where much of Hasler's research began, Local Interest maps the friable and slippery landscapes of south Suffolk and north Essex: estuaries and water meadows, coastal defences and disused decoys,