Emily Hasler’s first pamphlet is overwhelmingly concerned with the natural world and how the human effects it with observation, taxonomy and legend – and that doesn’t exclude the poet’s act of recording which results in the poem. Emily spent a year as poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, and her work is rooted in English poetic history, most explicitly in this allusion to some famous lines by Edward Thomas:
‘if we set them free the poisons escape
along with all the birds
of North and South America –’
Salt Publishing/paperback/£6.50/9781844718672
Dan Eltringham
Dulwich Books Recommends 
I love this book. I had a chance to have a quick chat with Emily when she was at the Poetry Evening a short while back. One of the reasons I love this so much is because of her eye for detail and that the poems are slightly reminiscent of the Romantics. There is also a deep rhythm and musicality to her writing.