โ Scribed by Pauline Stainer
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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 โ with presences and hauntings, sensing the spirit incarnate in every part of the living world.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn't quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, she's recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indiff
?Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, The Juniper Tree is a haunting and beautifully written fable by the acclaimed author of The Vet's Daughte. In their idyllic garden, Gertrude and Bernard forge a perfect triangle of friendship with Bella, the scarred mother of an illegitimate