Background
Born in Moose Jaw, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan.
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The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out: Poems
( Winner of the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize "Intr...)
Winner of the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize "Introducing Karen Solie, I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray: ' . . . He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives'. . . And, yes, as we embark on the third millennium of our so-called Common Era, she is indeed the one by whom the language lives." --Michael Hofmann, London Review of Books A sublime singer of existential bewilderment, Karen Solie is one of contemporary poetry's most direct and haunting voices. A poet of the in-between places--the purgatory of wayside motels and junkyards, the abandoned Calgary ski jump and the eternal noon of Walmart--her poems stake out startlingly new territory and are songs for our emerging world, an age of uncertainty and melting icebergs. In Solie's new collection, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, she restlessly excavates our civilization, the moments of tough luck, casual violence, naked desire, and inchoate menace, pursuing "Beauty and terror / in equal measure" and fixing on the "Intrigue of a boarded-up building. / We want to get in there and find out what's the matter with it." Amplifying the elegant recklessness of her Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection Pigeon, these poems bear an uncanny poetic intelligence and unflinching vision.
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Karen Solie
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Career
Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an academic research assistant, and an English teacher. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. Karen Solie"s poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous North American journals, including Geist The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Event, Indiana Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Other Voices, and The Capilano Review.
She has also had her poetry published in the anthologies Breathing Fire (1995), Hammer and Tongs (1999), and Introductions: Poets Present Poets (2001).
In 2014, she was named as a trustee to the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. Her new collection, The Road in Is Not the Same Road Out, was published in 2015.
Achievements
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One of her short stories was featured in The Journey Prize Anthology 12 (2000). Solie"s poem "Prayers for the Sick" won second place in American Red Cross Magazine"s 2008 Poem of the Year Contest. Solie was one of the judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize, judged the 2012 Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a judge for the Poetry in Voice Canadian high school poetry recitation competition. In 2015, she won the Latner Writers" Trust Poetry Prize.
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The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out: Poems
( Winner of the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize "Intr...)
- The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out: Poems by Karen Solie (2015-05-12)
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The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out: Poems
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Awards
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the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize; ReLit award; Pat Lowther Award; Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; Journey Prize; Gerald Lampert Award; Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.; The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.; The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.