Emily Hasler's poetry delves into the intricate relationship between humanity and the natural world. Her work often explores the minute details of the natural environment, revealing deeper meanings within. Hasler writes with a keen sense of language and rhythm, crafting evocative and reflective poetic landscapes. Her poems invite readers to contemplate humanity's place within the broader ecosystem and our connection to the natural world.
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, possible futures and forgotten pasts.
A breath-taking collection that moves between local and distant, urban and rural, past and present. This is poetry of emotional density with a lightness of touch, structural but organic, detailed but lively, thoughtful but playful. A rare combination of exactitude and wonder leading the reader in and keeping them there.