{"product_id":"wellwater","title":"Wellwater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the T.S. Eliot Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn\u003ci\u003e Observer, Telegraph, TLS, Guardian, Scotsman, New Statesman, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize\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\u003econducts 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\u003eSolie 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'Solie is an essential writer . . . anyone remotely interested in 21st-century literature, or 21st-century life, should read her' - Tristram Fane Saunders, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\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'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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 112 pages | Published April 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63986283675997,"sku":"9781035048182","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781035048182.jpg?v=1774497796","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/wellwater","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}