Sleeping under the Juniper Tree
Published on 27. April 2017
61 pages
978-1-78037-342-3 (ISBN)
Description
?Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breath-taking...her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life of their own' (John Burnside). As in all her books, the luminous poems of her ninth collection Sleeping under the Juniper Tree are minimal but highly charged - with presences and hauntings, sensing the spirit incarnate in every part of the living world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tarset
United Kingdom
File size
0,19 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78037-342-3 (9781780373423)
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Pauline Stainer
Sleeping under the Juniper Tree
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04/2017
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Person
Pauline Stainer is a freelance writer and tutor. After many years in rural Essex and then on the Orkney island of Rousay, she now lives at Hadleigh in Suffolk. Her Bloodaxe titles include The Lady & the Hare: New & Selected Poems (2003), which draws on five previous books, as well as a new collection, A Litany of High Waters, and three later collections, Crossing the Snowline (2008), Tiger Facing the Mist (2013) and Sleeping under the Juniper Tree (2017). Along with The Lady & the Hare, her collections The Honeycomb, Sighting the Slave Ship and The Ice-Pilot Speaks were all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Her fourth collection The Wound-dresser's Dream was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1996. Pauline Stainer received a Cholmondeley Award for her poetry in 2009.
Content
- Intro
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Elijah sleeping under the juniper tree
- Bach after dark
- Alchemist in search of a voice
- Nativity with beehives
- The marvellous blemish
- Percussion
- Hindsight
- At the mind's edge
- Pompeii
- Burial
- The control room
- Shaman's mirror
- Water-mirror
- The library of water
- Closure
- The glass cloud
- Spirit-level
- Lone Surfer
- The stilling
- John Donne arriving in heaven
- Fantasia upon one note
- Lute-maker in a north light
- Frankenstein on Orkney
- The jade quarry
- Japanese acrobats at the Crystal Palace
- A step to the Japanese garden
- The bamboo theatre
- May
- The Nine of Hares
- The Copse
- The brazen foxes
- White doe
- Spring snow
- Inner garden
- A place between places
- The anxiety of sunlight
- Borderland
- The Rosary Quay
- The invisible year
- The convention
- Snowfall in Babylon
- Forest with mistletoe
- Resource
- Rewilding
- Avoriaz
- Aftermath
- After Gerhard Richter
- The shape of forgetting
- The Mondaytown bat
- Accidentals
- The leavening
- Afterlife
- Prophecy
- About the Author
- Copyright
