Wellwater
24 April 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken' – Michael Hoffman, LRB
Wellwater, by Karen Solie, 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’...
Details
24 April 202596 pages
9781035048182Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spokenMichael Hofmann, London Review of Books
Powerful, philosophical, intelligent . . . [Solie is] especially adept at pulling great wisdom from the ordinaryAnne Carson, Kathleen Jamie, and Carl Phillips, Griffin Poetry Prize Judges' Citation
A poet of the modern, cross-country journeyGuardian
Solie takes her place among our best contemporary poets . . . The Caiplie Caves is Solie’s best work yet, full of true, beautiful, menacing things.Harvard Review
