The Built Environment by Emily Hasler Richard Douglas Pennant laternfish

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and always alert to the surreal comedy of the human condition

I could not be held responsible

In Amsterdam in 2002

’ Moniza Alvi

The Built Environment by Emily Hasler Richard Douglas Pennant laternfishEmily Haslers debut collection moves between the local and the distant, the urban and the rural, and past and present. This is a poetry of emotional density underpinned with a lightness of touch. Haslers poems are structural but organic, detailed but lively, thoughtful but playful. There is a rare combination of exactitude and wonder which leads the reader in and keeps them there. Often taking their cue from the work of visual artists, these poems