Poems Rethabile Likes

Wellwater by Karen Solie | Poems Rethabile Likes “Wellwater,” by Karen Solie Poet Karen Solie reads from “Wellwater,” from her collection Wellwater (Picador Poetry, 2025), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Read more about the collection "The poems of Wellwater come from the whole of an adventurously lived life. They hold the two sentiments 'The world is a beautiful place / The world is a terrible place', in perfect equipoise. They offer no happy endings, no salvation in past or future, in epiphany or private happiness. And yet they are anything but grim, with an ironic humour that plays over our increasingly euphemism-hungry culture." — Michael Hofmann Here is how “Wellwater” opens: I didn’t know what I had, drove the watertruck underage to the well in a swimsuit, anoi...