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). As in all her books, the luminous poems of her second collection Sighting the Slave Ship are minimal but highly charged - with presences and hauntings, sensing the spirit incarnate in every part of the living world. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.