Summary
‘Introducing Karen Solie, I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray […] - she is the one by whom the language lives’. - Michael Hofmann, LRB
The Canadian Karen Solie is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most important poets at work today. Her fifth book of poetry, The Caiplie Caves, is a profound and timely consideration of the nature of crisis: at its heart is the figure of St Ethernan, a seventh-century Irish missiona…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529005325 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529005329 |
| Author: | Karen Solie |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
A poet of the modern, cross-country journey
A poet of the modern, cross-country journey * Guardian *
One by whom the language lives – Michael Hofmann * London Review of Books *
Powerful, philosophical, intelligent … [Solie is] especially adept at pulling great wisdom from the ordinary … an ability to see at once into and through our daily struggle, often thwarted by our very selves, toward something like an honourable life. – Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie, and Carl Phillips, Griffin Poetry Prize Judges’ Citation
About The Author
Karen Solie
Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. She is the author of three collections of poems including Pigeon, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She was International Writer-in-Residence at the University of St Andrews in 2011, and is an Associate Director for the Banff Centre’s Writing Studio program. Her poems have been published in the US, the UK, and Europe, and have been translated into French, German, Korean, and Dutch. Her first UK collection, The Living Option: Selected Poems, was published in 2013. She lives in Toronto.
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