Tag: Karen Solie
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No pain, no poetry: nostalgia in Karen Solie’s ‘Wellwater’ and Vidyan Ravinthiran’s ‘Avidya’
For the first time, in 2025 the Forward Prize for Poetry was jointly awarded. From an initial glance, Karen Solie’s Wellwater—which also won the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize—and Vidyan Ravinthiran’s Vidya have little in common. Wellwater charts the speaker’s memories of growing up in ?Edmonton, Canada, whilst also reckoning with the damage the anthropocene is…