Pauline Stainer's The Wound-dresser's Dream was shortlisted for Whitbread Book of the Year. Her other collections, The Honeycomb (1989), Sighting the Slave Ship (1992) and The Ice-Pilot Speaks (1994), are all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Her fifth collection, Parable Island, is due from Bloodaxe in 1999. She lives on the island of Rousay in the Orkneys.

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