Tiger Facing the Mist
Published on 27. March 2014
64 pages
978-1-78037-093-4 (ISBN)
Description
Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breathtaking... 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 eighth collection Tiger Facing the Mist are minimal but highly charged -with presences and hauntings, sensing the spirit incarnate in every part of the living world.
Reviews / Votes
Over the past 20 years, Pauline Stainer has all but perfected the art of illumination without demystification, in search of what she calls "the divining shiver", a phrase that can only gesture towards the combination of physical immediacy and numinous wonder that her marvellous poems possess... Stroke by stroke, apprehension by apprehension, Stainer is building a unique and extraordinary body of work. -- Frances Leviston * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tarset
United Kingdom
File size
0,20 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78037-093-4 (9781780370934)
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Pauline Stainer is a freelance writer and tutor. After many years in rural Essex and then on the Orkney island of Rousay, she spent a number of years in rural Suffolk. She now lives near Saffron Walden. Her nine poetry titles, all of which have been published by Bloodaxe Books, 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. Her three subsequent collections are 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
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Tiger facing the mist
- Reading by snowlight
- On whiteness
- The mirror in the orchard
- Hares at dusk
- Caliban and the blue moon
- Against hesitancy
- Peregrini
- Qaumaneq
- Conjuration
- The nature of the game
- Momentum
- The impulse
- Looking to Borrowdale
- The blue planet
- Shibui
- After long fallow
- Overspill
- The owl window
- On opening the north door
- The mole-catcher's cottage
- Orkney Epiphany
- The sheep-rustling
- In praise of flying squirrels
- The elephants of Atlantis
- How the snow-leopard became
- Suffolk albatross
- The Queen of Sutton Hoo
- The beekeepers
- The Druids of Primrose Hill
- Mountain bikers
- After Ernst
- The lay clerk's song
- Sea-otter and child
- Our Lady of the dry tree
- Krishna and the milkmaids
- Outsleeping the monsoon
- The dislocation
- Insight
- George Herbert plays the lute
- The sounding
- Overwintering
- Onsen
- The wedding at Valletta
- Rimbaud in Zanzibar
- Apothecary's song
- A Kind of Quickening
- Long Friday
- The key and the crystal
- About the Author
- Copyright
