Background
Pauline Stainer was born on March 5, 1941 in the industrial district of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Southampton, United Kingdom
Stainer completed a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Southampton in 1967.
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Pauline Stainer studied at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she took a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1963.
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Pauline Stainer is a poet "working at the margins of the sacred", conveying sensations with an economy of means that is breathtaking. In this, her fifth collection, Stainer evokes the spareness and luminosity of the land and seascapes of the Orkneys in poems which inhabit an imaginative borderland, inspired by her "visceral Muse".
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1999
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The Lady & the Hare brings together poetry of rare luminosity from Pauline Stainer's five previous books, together with new poems, all inhabiting an imaginative borderland inspired by her 'visceral Muse'.
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2003
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As in all her books, the luminous poems of Pauline Stainer's 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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2017
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As in all Pauline Stainer's 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.
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Pauline Stainer was born on March 5, 1941 in the industrial district of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Pauline Stainer studied at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she took a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1963. After Oxford she completed a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Southampton in 1967.
Pauline Stainer is an English poet, who, after several years on the Orkney island of Rousay, has moved to Suffolk, where she lives now.
Since the publication of her first volume of poems, The Honeycomb (1989) she has published 7 further full collections, including The Wound-Dresser's Dream (1996), The Lady and the Hare: New and Selected Poems (2003), and her latest volume, Tiger Facing the Mist (2013).
Her determinedly neo-romantic poetry explores sacred myth, legend, history-in-landscape, and human feeling - and their connections to the 'inner landscapes' of the imaginative mind. Her choice of subject matter is perhaps partly a reaction to her growing up in the industrial city of Stoke-on-Trent. The compact vividness of her visual imagery is akin to that of the Anglo Saxon riddles, Symbolist poetry, or the work of García Lorca. Reviewers have also detected the influence of Ted Hughes in her work.
Stainer has collaborated with, and has been published by the Brotherhood of Ruralists, but is now published by the major poetry book publisher Bloodaxe Books. She has recently lived in Hadleigh, Suffolk before moving back to Essex in late 2017.
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2017(As in all Pauline Stainer's books, the luminous poems of ...)
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2003(In The Wound Dresser's Dream, Stainer's challenging fourt...)
1996(Pauline Stainer is a poet "working at the margins of the ...)
1999(Crossing the Snowline charts Stainer's return to life aft...)
2008Pauline Stainer raised four children. She now has six grand-children, two of whom are named Josh and Ruth (stated in the dedication of her latest book).