The Caiplie Caves
30 May 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Wry, sharp-eyed and uncompromising, The Caiplie Caves is the most ambitious collection yet from an essential poet.' The Telegraph
‘Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken’. – Michael Hofmann, LRB
The Canadian Karen Solie is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most important poets at work today. Her fifth book of poetry, The Caiplie Caves, is...
Details
30 May 201980 pages
9781529005332Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A poet of the modern, cross-country journeyGuardian
One by whom the language livesMichael Hofmann, London Review of Books
Powerful, philosophical, intelligent . . . [Solie is] especially adept at pulling great wisdom from the ordinary . . . an ability to see at once into and through our daily struggle, often thwarted by our very selves, toward something like an honourable life.Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie, and Carl Phillips, Griffin Poetry Prize Judges’ Citation
