Wellwater by Karen Solie Penny Boxall precise poems that remind us

precise poems that remind us of the delicacy of the world we live in

and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war

History and Chronicle of the Songbook by Umberto Saba (1883-1957)

from the humorous ‘How to knit a sheep’ to the intimate

What pilgrims seek on setting out and what they discover as they go prove to be complementary

Wellwater by Karen Solie Penny Boxall precise poems that remind usWellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink. Thresholds abound, "doors between dimensions' where past selves or lost loves ones may speak to us again: "death is not Saskatchewan' shrugs one encountered soul, "we don't all know each