Wellwater by Karen Solie Penny Boxall and holds something of this

and holds something of this despair

a world of process and mutation

the seeds that may still germinate one day

History and Chronicle of the Songbook by Umberto Saba (1883-1957)

’ – Vidyan Ravinthiran

Wellwater by Karen Solie Penny Boxall and holds something of thisWellwater 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