Local Interest by Emily Hasler Katherine Horrex ’Gowanus atropolis reinscribes

’Gowanus atropolis reinscribes

its antecedents (not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid

John Siddique: ‘Penny Boxall’s poems are somewhat akin to the glass objects in an antique shop or the attic – each poem holds the light in its own way

trailing threads of real memories into imaginary word-gardens bristling with tricks

Anne Tyler and the Great Uncle and Grandfather she never knew

Local Interest by Emily Hasler Katherine Horrex ’Gowanus atropolis reinscribesSituated 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,