{"product_id":"wellwater","title":"Wellwater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken' - Michael Hofmann, \u003ci\u003eLRB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Half-expertise and half-magic . . . \u003ci\u003eWellwater\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrifying book - and a masterly one. Solie is as good as poetry gets' - Declan Ryan, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWellwater\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, \u003ci\u003eWellwater\u003c\/i\u003e 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 loved ones speak to us again: 'death is not Saskatchewan' shrugs one encountered soul, 'we don't all know each other in this place'.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 recognised as one of the essential voices in world poetry. \u003ci\u003eWellwater\u003c\/i\u003e will delight those already in the know, while new readers of her work will be astonished.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Powerful, philosophical, intelligent . . . [Solie is] adept at pulling great wisdom from the ordinary' - Griffin Prize judges Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie and Carl Phillips\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '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' - Kit Fan, \u003ci\u003eObsever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A wry and buoyant playfulness walks a tightrope with frank appraisal . . . The result is a work of political profundity and linguistic dexterity that constantly surprises.' - Susannah Dickey, PEN Heaney Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eISDAL\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTennis Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Wellwater","offer_id":45692260352197,"sku":null,"price":44.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-0350-4818-2.jpg?v=1769300137","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/wellwater","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}