The Built Environment (Pavilion Poetry) - Softcover

Hasler, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178694104X ISBN 13: 9781786941046

Publisher: Pavilion Poetry, 2018

Synopsis

Emily Hasler's 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. Hasler's 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 probe at the ways we understand and reconstruct our environment. Examining places, objects, buildings, landscapes, rivers and bridges, these poems ask how our world is made, and how it makes us.

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About the Author

Emily Hasler was born in Suffolk. She has lived in the Lake District, rural Kent and London, ending up on the Essex-side of the river Stour. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2014. Her pamphlet, Natural Histories, was published by Salt in 2011.

Review

'Emily Hasler's poems invite us to look again at the ways in which we construct - and constrain - meaning, experience, ourselves and each other. They draw on past narratives and historical forms of investment to suggest future possibilities.'
Lavinia Greenlaw

'These poems are finely and patiently constructed, "the thought is latticed, girded by gaps". Alive to the intangible, their architectural motifs continually shift back and forth, sometimes vertiginously, between the literal and the metaphorical.'
Jamie McKendrick

'Cerebral and thoughtful ... subtle, perfectly pitched.' -- Suzannah V. Evans, Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Pavilion Poetry
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 178694104X
• ISBN 13: 9781786941046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 58