{"product_id":"wellwater","title":"Wellwater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWellwater\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, \u003cem\u003eWellwater\u003c\/em\u003e conducts a self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThresholds 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’. Solie excels as a laureate of the transitory, of ‘baffling flats..\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKaren Solie is increasingly recognised as one of the essential voices in world poetry. \u003cem\u003eWellwater\u003c\/em\u003e will delight those already in the know, while new readers of her work will be astonished. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karen Solie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57249523630467,"sku":"9781035048182","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/9781529077780_25.jpg?v=1769519177","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.com\/products\/wellwater","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}