Wellwater

A powerful and luminous poetry collection that explores landscape, memory, and our deep connections to the natural world. In Wellwater, acclaimed Canadian poet Karen Solie delivers a stunning collection that draws from the prairies, mountains, and waters of her homeland to create poems of extraordinary depth and beauty. With her characteristic precision and startling imagery, Solie examines the relationships between human consciousness and the natural environment, finding profound meaning in the seemingly ordinary details of rural and urban life.

These poems move between intimate personal observation and broader meditations on history, ecology, and place. Solie's voice is both grounded and transcendent, capturing the harsh beauty of prairie landscapes while exploring themes of belonging, displacement, and the ways in which geography shapes identity. Her work reveals the complex interconnections between past and present, human and non-human worlds.

From abandoned homesteads to bustling city streets, from the rhythms of agricultural life to the quiet contemplation of natural spaces, Wellwater showcases Solie's remarkable ability to find the extraordinary within the everyday. Her poems are both deeply rooted in specific places and universally resonant, speaking to anyone who has felt the pull of landscape on the imagination. Winner of numerous poetry awards, Karen Solie continues to establish herself as one of Canada's most important contemporary voices, offering readers a collection that is both intellectually rigorous and emotionally moving.