Award-winning Canadian poet Karen Solie will read poetry in Wellington
next week at a one-off event presented by Victoria University’s International
Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), in partnership with City Gallery
Wellington.
Karen comes to Wellington fresh from appearances at the Cork Poetry
Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week.
Chris Price, a Senior Lecturer at the IIML, says Karen’s visit is an
excellent opportunity for literary enthusiasts in Wellington to hear a
contemporary international poet.
“Karen’s poems explore how we inhabit and exploit our urban and rural
landscapes in the 21st century.
“While she focuses on the Canadian experience, her images will be
familiar to New Zealanders—lakes and rivers turning brown with agricultural
run-off, oil rigs and fracking, our apparent inability to find a way out of the
mess we’re making. And she’s equally alert to the fragile nature of love and
reason,” she says.
In 2001, Karen’s first collection Short Haul Engine was awarded
the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and nominated for three other prizes. In 2005,
she published her second collection Modern and Normal and her 2009
collection Pigeon won three prizes, including the prestigious Griffin
Poetry Prize.
The Griffin Prize Judges’ citation says: “It's the particular affliction
of desire—and the corrosive effects of human desire both upon ourselves and the
world we inhabit—that Solie most often meditates upon in poems as humorous,
often, as they are sobering.”
Karen also represented Canada at Simon Armitage's Poetry Parnassus, the
Poetry Olympics in London last year.
Karen’s visit has been made possible with the generous support of the
Canada Council for the Arts.
Event: Writers on Mondays: Karen Solie
Date: Monday 11 March 2013, 12.15–1.15pm
Venue: City Gallery, Civic Square, Wellington
This event is free and open to the public.
Venue: City Gallery, Civic Square, Wellington
This event is free and open to the public.
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