Wellwater by Karen Solie comedy Vietnam and a memorial poem

Vietnam and a memorial poem to the victims of the 2015 Bataclan attack where the dead are ‘stations of flame’

Richly crafted and generous

often ironic lines that move from meditation to matter of fact in a single beat

This new translation combines five collections

Wellwater by Karen Solie comedy Vietnam and a memorial poemWellwater 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