CKCU Literary News
Wednesday May 20th, 2015 with Hans G. Ruprecht & POETRY Magazine Editor Don Share
Karen Solie reading 'Bitumen'

The POETRY Magazine MAY Podcast with the award winning Canadian poet KAREN SOLIE, reading 'Bitumen' "[...] Lac-Mégantic. The optics are bad. We’re all downstream now. [...]" from her new collection 'The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out 2015' (House of Anansi Press, 2015). KAREN SOLIE's bibliography includes: •Short Haul Engine 2001 (winner of the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the ReLit Award) •Modern and Normal 2005 (shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Award); •Pigeon 2009 (winner of the 2010 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, Pat Lowther Award and Trillium Book Award for Poetry); •The Living Option 2013; •The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out 2015 (House of Anansi Press, 2015).