Wellwater by Karen Solie Penny Boxall Dandy Bogan brings one of

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

the seeds that may still germinate one day

Every child should have a Christmas Stocking

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

History and Chronicle of the Songbook by Umberto Saba (1883-1957)

Wellwater by Karen Solie Penny Boxall Dandy Bogan brings one ofWellwater 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