A sublime singer of existential bewilderment, Karen Solie is one of contemporary poetry's most direct and haunting voices. A poet of the in-between places-the purgatory of wayside motels and junkyards, the abandoned Calgary ski jump and the eternal noon of Walmart-her poems stake out startlingly new territory and are songs for our emerging world, an age of uncertainty and melting icebergs.
"It's one thing to be a brilliant writer. It's a whole other thing to make your readers feel like collaborators in your brilliance and not just witnesses to it. Griffin Prize-winning poet Karen Solie's superpower has always been in her ability to make complex feats of association seem easy; where other poets might lean an image against an idea and hope the connection between them comes throug
Emma Healey, The Globe and Mail
"It is more than possible to love Karen Solie's coolly impressive poems."
Aingeal Clare, Times Literary Supplement
"[Solie is] a Canadian poet with an international reputation . . . Solie is the clearest reference point in the work of this past year's most exciting poetry debuts . . . This is Canadian poetry's Karen Solie era."
