Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year, 2009, Commended, Pigeon.
Griffin Poetry Prize, 2010, Winner, Pigeon.
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, 2010, Winner, Pigeon.
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, 2010, Short-listed, Pigeon.
Trillium Book Award, 2010, Winner, Pigeon.
Solie has found a technique that others could only envy.
- National Post
Pigeon...shows why [Solie] has become one of the most admired Canadian poets of her generation.
- Globe and Mail
Lyrical but gritty, intellectual but tough-talking, colloquial yet elegant...as she delves deeper into the social and geological bedrock of our civilization. This is [Solie's] strongest book yet. - Quill & Quire
- Quill & Quire
Karen Solie has established herself as one of Canada's best lyric poets...Pigeon deals out fearlessness, humour, and raw experience, one killing line after another...Among the arts, poetry has the most human of values, and among poets, few are as deeply human as Solie. Her poems respond to the many ways a day can come to us, while seeming to discover and name new constants of the heart.
- NUVO
As much as Pigeon sings with metaphor and language-love, it is also infused with a subtle formality that feels like listening to the echoing footsteps of someone walking by deep in thought...In wilderness, perhaps self-discovery, but also distance and solitude exist. Solie provides all three.
- Globe and Mail