Crossing the Snowline

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). Crossing the Snowline charts her return to life after numbing grief. These luminous poems are a testament of recovery, renewal and redemption. Pauline Stainer writes: '...