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1941 -
Poet. Pauline Stainer was born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent and went on to gain a degree in English at St. Anne's College, Oxford and a Masters degree at Southampton University. She did not return to the Potteries and has lived in Essex, Rousay in the Orkney Islands and Suffolk.
Her first collection of poetry was not published until 1989 when she was in her mid-forties. In a review of her most recent collection, The lady and the hare (2003), David Morley (in The guardian) looked back on her work and considered how she had made such an immediate impact:
Stainer's poetry was distinctive among the new generation of poets for several strong reasons, not least the powers of her reason, the natural balance and maturity of her intelligence, and the fact that her poems were written in a way that most of the then current poetry wasn't: her poetics was difficult, strange and challenging.
She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1987 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1996 for The wound-dresser's dream.
The honeycomb (1989)
Little Egypt (1991)
Sighting the slave ship (1992)
The ice-pilot speaks (1994)
The wound-dresser's dream (1996)
Parable Island (1999)
A litany of high waters (2002)
The lady and the hare; new and selected Poems (2003)
Further information about Pauline Stainer can be found in the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Stainer
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