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Pauline Stainer
Drovers
Drovers
Drovers
They came down hollowaysbetween blue sloes.
I have come to know
that register of blue-darks
juniper berries deepening
through woodsmoke
the pungency of bruised herbs
at dusk
slow-burn
of driven beasts
blue intake of breath
at pasture beyond.
© 2008, Pauline Stainer
From: Crossing the Snowline
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, Northumberland
From: Crossing the Snowline
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, Northumberland
Pauline Stainer
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1941)
Pauline Stainer has always worked outside the metropolitan poetry community. Yet she won first prize in the Stroud Festival poetry competition in 1984, and has won major awards in several other competitions, including the TLS and the King’\'s Lynn, Cheltenham, Leek, Hastings and York festival competitions. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1987, and came to wider notice with her quiet...
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Drovers
They came down hollowaysbetween blue sloes.
I have come to know
that register of blue-darks
juniper berries deepening
through woodsmoke
the pungency of bruised herbs
at dusk
slow-burn
of driven beasts
blue intake of breath
at pasture beyond.
From: Crossing the Snowline
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