Wellwater

Summary

Rooted in the vast, spare landscapes of rural Canada, this collection meditates on place, ecological change, and what it means to belong to a land that is itself in the process of being altered beyond recognition. Solie brings to these questions a philosophical wit and a lyric precision that prevent the book from becoming merely elegiac, finding the sublime in the mundane and the absurd in the catastrophic. Her win confirmed her as one of the most important poets writing in English today.