Wellwater

“Blazingly honest.” — The Guardian

“[Karen Solie has] a consistent knack for surprise, for finding ways to develop a style that, one book back, felt fully realized.” — Literary Hub

 “Wellwater is full of small revelations. At this point, Solie has little left to achieve, but if her poems keep letting their mask slip, they might genuinely surprise us. She has been a thrillingly unpredictable poet for twenty-five years.” — The Walrus

“Wellwater is an unerring recalibration. To counter an age of abstraction and illusion, Solie zeroes in on the overlooked … Masterful compositions.” — The Literary Review of Canada

“Authoritative and unforgettable … How Solie binds bleakness, distance, confidence and vulnerability into such a distinctive poetic presence is a compelling puzzle.” — The Times Literary Supplement

“Wellwater is full of complex ideas that speak to resilience of both people and our environment, and look to ways we can move forward at peace with our world.” — Canadian Living 

“Sardonic, perceptive, and unrelenting.” — Room Magazine

“Wellwater [has] a characteristically fierce intellectual and poetic rigour.” — Winnipeg Free Press

“If there is any obvious hope to be found in the sombre and desolate poems on offer in this collection, it is in the perseverance of nature in the face of violence and peril … These things, independent of human faith and competitive capitalism, endure. And they are the things, these poems argue, we might most profitably focus on.” — That Shakespearean Rag

“Wellwater is an extraordinary collection.” — The Woodlot 

“Solie’s poems offer both deep wisdom and a lightness across the line … Her poems craft deep wells of meditative thinking, lines that turn a leaf over in one’s hand, to study every side.” — rob mclennan’s blog 

"[Karen Solie] has never faltered.” — The Miramichi Reader

“Thoughtful.” — Quebec Library Association