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 2009 Cholmondeley Award for her poetry.

Other poems by Pauline Stainer in Verse Daily: August 11, 2004:  "Thaw" "The bodies of Victorian climbers..."

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About Sleeping under the Juniper Tree:

"Stainer conceives the spiritual and communicates with secular simplicity... In this, her second individual volume since the magisterial Selected: The Lady & the Hare (2003), Stainer has found fresh impetus and a singular tone. Her voice revealing 'unrelated things singing to themselves'."
—Hayden Murphy

"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

"Her territory is predominantly that of legend: its symbols and its creatures — the unicorn, the falcon, the serpent — but she often draws them into a contemporary setting where they neither shed power nor lose meaning. Her purpose is not so much to import the ancient world into the modern as to demonstrate that those worlds are of a piece: that old rituals still obtain, that old beliefs still govern instinct."
—David Harsent

"Pauline Stainer writes sacred poetry for the scientific twenty-first century. Her poetry preserves a surety of vision, insisting that belief can only increase with knowledge, and that wisdom and faith are still provinces of careful, crystalline language. She is deeply English and draws from a wealth of sources: medieval lyrics, Eastern as well as Western art, Christian liturgy, and an impressive familiarity with chemistry and optics."
—Anne Stevenson