The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie C. Perricone crip humour and revolutionary grief

crip humour and revolutionary grief are all on display

Urban Myths and Legends is a sparky collection of poems by modern poets who have taken inspiration from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Chen is a poet I’ll be reading for the rest of my life

a voice of affirmation and praise

‘A brilliantly virtuosic collection of deeply felt poems concerned with the personal impact of the dislocations and betrayals of history

The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie C. Perricone crip humour and revolutionary griefIntroducing Karen Solie, I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray [. . .] she is the one by whom the language lives. 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