The Caiplie Caves - Karen Solie

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Résumé :

'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...

Biographie:
Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. She is the author of three collections of poems including Pigeon, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She was International Writer-in-Residence at the University of St Andrews in 2011, and is an Associate Director for the Banff Centre's Writing Studio program. Her poems have been published in the US, the UK, and Europe, and have been translated into French, German, Korean, and Dutch. Her first UK collection, The Living Option: Selected Poems, was published in 2013. She lives in Toronto....

Sommaire:
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....