Sleeping Under the Juniper Tree by Pauline Stainer Polly Atkin María Baranda is one of

María Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the generation

and in a lavish edition

a lucid and moving introduction to a collective poetic subject that defies all kinds of social oppression

work and play - and the urgent need to find a voice for the poems that will somehow do the whole glorious riot of it justice

where a shadow “might be a huddle of women or a bramble”

Sleeping Under the Juniper Tree by Pauline Stainer Polly Atkin María Baranda is one ofPauline 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 ninth collection Sleeping under the Juniper Tree are minimal but highly charged with presences and hauntings, sensing the spirit incarnate in every part of the living world. Stainer