Local Interest by Emily Hasler Penguin Putnam from his Fenton-Aldeburgh Prize debut

from his Fenton-Aldeburgh Prize debut

We need Pilgrim Bell

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

The world here seems to be steadily vanishing

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

Local Interest by Emily Hasler Penguin Putnam from his Fenton-Aldeburgh Prize debutSituated 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,