Local Interest by Emily Hasler Katherine Horrex trailing threads of real memories

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

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Local Interest by Emily Hasler Katherine Horrex trailing threads of real memoriesSituated 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,