The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie C. Perricone in a language and style

in a language and style of verse that were emphatically modern

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

Combining meditations

crip humour and revolutionary grief are all on display

a voice of affirmation and praise

The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie C. Perricone in a language and styleIntroducing 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