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The Caiplie caves
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- Book 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 a profound and timely consideration of the nature of crisis: at its heart is the figure of St Ethernan, a seventh-century Irish missionary to Scotland who retreated to the caves of the Fife coast in order to decide whether to establish a priory on May Island or pursue a life of solitude. His decision would have been informed by realities of war, misinformation and power; Solie imagines this crisis also complicated by grief, confusion - and a faith placed under extreme duress. Woven through Ethernan's story are poems that orbit the caves' geographical location, and range through the recurring violences of history and myth, of personal and public record. In poems of the utmost lyric subtlety and argumentative strength, Solie addresses how we might distinguish self-delusion from belief, belief from knowledge - and how, in the frailty of our responses, we can find the courage to move forward. 'Powerful, philosophical, intelligent . . . [Solie is] especially adept at pulling great wisdom from the ordinary' - Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie, and Carl Phillips, Griffin Poetry Prize Judges' Citation
- About The Author
- Karen Solie grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. She is the author of six collections of poetry - Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, Pigeon, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, The Caiplie Caves and Wellwater - which have won the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Dorothy Livesay Award, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize. The Living Option: Selected Poems, was published in the UK in 2013. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, Karen Solie teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781529005325
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Picador, (30 May 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 80
- Weight
- 228 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 195 x 152 x 15 mm
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