The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie C. Perricone the father of growing children

the father of growing children

in a language and style of verse that were emphatically modern

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Combining meditations

crip humour and revolutionary grief are all on display

The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie C. Perricone the father of growing childrenIntroducing 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