Wellwater: Poems by Solie, Karen
Wellwater: Poems by Solie, Karen

Wellwater: Poems

Winner of the Forward PrizeWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot...
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Author: Karen Solie
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Wellwater: Poems by Solie, Karen

Wellwater: Poems

$21.60
Wellwater: Poems by Solie, Karen

Wellwater: Poems

$21.60
Author: Karen Solie
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Winner of the Forward Prize
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize

A new collection of urgent, essential poems that "take your breath away" (The Daily Telegraph), from the celebrated Canadian poet Karen Solie.

The poems in Wellwater, Karen Solie's sixth collection, explore the cultural, economic, and personal ideas of "value," addressing housing, economic and environmental crises, and aging and its incumbent losses. Places we might think of as home have become unaffordable or inaccessible. A poor excuse for an apartment, a basement suite is "cold on five sides, like childhood," and "tries to forget we are here." Power lines, radios, and fluorescent lights all emit a "low hum of menace," and "vulgar muffins, overstuffed as geese with funnels down their throats" come to represent a culture in decline.

Solie, who grew up in Saskatchewan on a small family farm, sees the economic and environmental crises as intertwined. Climate change has made small farming untenable, and onward creeps the corporate control of food production. "There is no starting over," Solie writes. And yet, life, echoing with the presence of those lost, ambles along day by day.

Author: Karen Solie
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780374617677


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2026

About the Author
Karen Solie grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry--Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, Pigeon, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, and The Caiplie Caves--have won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, and have been short-listed for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.
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