Karen Solie wins T.S. Eliot Prize for Wellwater

Moose Jaw-born poet Karen Solie's sixth collection, Wellwater, won the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize; the book, which also won the 2025 Forward Prize, explores themes of value, aging, housing and environmental and economic crises.

Moose Jaw-born poet Karen Solie's sixth collection of poems, Wellwater, has won the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize. Published in 2025, the collection explores the intersection of cultural, economic and personal ideas of value and addresses themes of aging, housing and environmental and economic crises. Wellwater also won the 2025 Forward Prize in October. Solie was the only Canadian poet shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize this year. Key facts: - Wellwater is Karen Solie's sixth poetry collection, published in 2025. - Wellwater won the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize. - The collection also won the 2025 Forward Prize for Poetry in October. - The T.S. Eliot Prize carries an award of £25,000 (reported as about $47,150 Cdn). - Solie was the only Canadian shortlisted; she was a 2023 Guggenheim fellow and teaches half-time at the University of St. Andrews. Summary: The prize brings publicity and recognition for Wellwater, which Solie said creates a small measure of publicity when resources for poetry are limited. Undetermined at this time.