Local Interest by Emily Hasler Penguin Putnam to read a collection that

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

The world here seems to be steadily vanishing

" according to the opening poem in The Earliest Witnesses

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

Local Interest by Emily Hasler Penguin Putnam to read a collection thatSituated 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,