Karen Solie 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. Her poems have been published in North America, the U.K., and Europe. She lives in Toronto.
As much as Pigeon sings with metaphor and language-love, it is also
infused with a subtle formality that feels like listening to the
echoing footsteps of someone walking by deep in thought...In
wilderness, perhaps self-discovery, but also distance and solitude
exist. Solie provides all three.-- "Globe and Mail"
Karen Solie has established herself as one of Canada's best lyric
poets...Pigeon deals out fearlessness, humour, and raw experience,
one killing line after another...Among the arts, poetry has the
most human of values, and among poets, few are as deeply human as
Solie. Her poems respond to the many ways a day can come to us,
while seeming to discover and name new constants of the heart.--
"NUVO"
Lyrical but gritty, intellectual but tough-talking, colloquial yet
elegant...as she delves deeper into the social and geological
bedrock of our civilization. This is [Solie's] strongest book yet.
- Quill & Quire-- "Quill & Quire"
Pigeon...shows why [Solie] has become one of the most admired
Canadian poets of her generation.--Paul Vermeersch "Globe and
Mail"
Solie has found a technique that others could only envy.--Richard
Greene "National Post"
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