Wellwater by Karen Solie PRE-ORDER
Published 24th April 2025. Available for pre-order.
Wellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink. Thresholds abound, "doors between dimensions' where past selves or lost loves ones may speak to us again: "death is not Saskatchewan' shrugs one encountered soul, "we don't all know each other in this place'. Solie excels as a laureate of the transitory, of "baffling flats . . . tiny museums of illegalities', motel rooms exuding a "low hum of menace'. Her roving, syntactically elegant poems will often resolve in disarming directness, a precise admission of the emotional stakes. Karen Solie is increasingly recognized as one of the essential voices in world poetry. Wellwater will delight those already in the know, while new readers of her work will be astonished.
Wellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink. Thresholds abound, "doors between dimensions' where past selves or lost loves ones may speak to us again: "death is not Saskatchewan' shrugs one encountered soul, "we don't all know each other in this place'. Solie excels as a laureate of the transitory, of "baffling flats . . . tiny museums of illegalities', motel rooms exuding a "low hum of menace'. Her roving, syntactically elegant poems will often resolve in disarming directness, a precise admission of the emotional stakes. Karen Solie is increasingly recognized as one of the essential voices in world poetry. Wellwater will delight those already in the know, while new readers of her work will be astonished.
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