The Built Environment by Emily Hasler Faber & Faber “Full of astonishingly good poems

“Full of astonishingly good poems which tease or surprise us into meditations" – Robert Towers

Graves’s 141 poems are accompanied by editor Charles Mundye’s critical and contextual Introduction

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The Built Environment by Emily Hasler Faber & Faber “Full of astonishingly good poemsEmily Haslers 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. Haslers 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