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Wellwater

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24 April 2025
112 pages
9781035048182
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

An almost unreasonably wonderful book . . . Solie is a brilliant cartographer of the feckless and the careless, of the ways in which inhumanity has an impact on the minutiae of our daily lives . . . Half-expertise and half-magic . . . Solie is an exquisite phrasemaker, analogist, blender of idioms, aphorist – and all these overlapping gifts create images, phrases, whole poems that take your breath away . . . Wellwater is a terrifying book – and a masterly one. Solie, for me, is as good as poetry gets
Her expansive, talkative lines unpack tight domestic spaces jam-packed with childhood memories as well as the awesome vistas of vast, dust-filled Canadian landscapes. Sometimes didactic and anecdotal, always matter-of-fact, Solie is a philosophical conversationalist . . . This is a well-timed book addressing our moment of climatic turbulence
Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken
Powerful, philosophical, intelligent . . . [Solie is] especially adept at pulling great wisdom from the ordinary