Wellwater by Karen Solie Penny Boxall from the humorous ‘How to

from the humorous ‘How to knit a sheep’ to the intimate

and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war

Every child should have a Christmas Stocking

Dandy Bogan brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time

a world of process and mutation

Wellwater by Karen Solie Penny Boxall from the humorous ‘How toWellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink. Thresholds abound, "doors between dimensions' where past selves or lost loves ones may speak to us again: "death is not Saskatchewan' shrugs one encountered soul, "we don't all know each