Local Interest by Emily Hasler Kate Behrens including the integral role of

including the integral role of the American artist Leonard Baskin and the significance of Hughes' own lived tragedies

Her poems ask how a person can bear to be in this world and still find true expression of themselves in their complex flux of identities

the landscape is dismantled behind the protagonist

and who observes nature ‘aslant’ as in a friend’s phobia about birds in ‘Maybe Owls’

The Manhattan Review

Local Interest by Emily Hasler Kate Behrens including the integral role ofSituated 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,