An almost unreasonably wonderful book . . . Solie is a brilliant cartographer of the feckless and the careless, of the ways in which inhumanity has an impact on the minutiae of our daily lives . . . Half-expertise and half-magic . . . Solie is an exquisite phrasemaker, analogist, blender of idioms, aphorist - and all these overlapping gifts create images, phrases, whole poems that take your breath away . . . Wellwater is a terrifying book - and a masterly one. Solie, for me, is as good as poetry gets Declan Ryan Telegraph