Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize

Poet’s sixth collection explores the destruction of the natural world, with a perspective shaped by her upbringing in rural CanadaThe Canadian poet Karen Solie has won the 2025 TS Eliot...

By Yassin El-Moudden · The Guardian World

Poet’s sixth collection explores the destruction of the natural world, with a perspective shaped by her upbringing in rural Canada The Canadian poet Karen Solie has won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize for a collection of work, Wellwater, which explores the destruction of the natural world. Solie was announced as the winner at a ceremony held at the Wallace Collection on Monday evening, and will receive £25,000 in prize money from the TS Eliot Foundation. Wellwater, her sixth collection, co-won the Forward prize for best collection last October, alongside Vidyan Ravinthiran’s Avidyā. Continue reading...