The Honeycomb

Summary

Pauline Stainer's debut collection The Honeycomb was illustrated with drawings by Brian Partridge with a cover painting by Graham Arnold, both Brotherhood of Ruralists artists. It was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In her Foreword to the book, Anne Stevenson writes that 'the honeycomb of the title furnishes her with a symbolic framework for the entire collection. Her bee poems, in their mature way, are as memorable as Sylvia Plath's, her medical poems more healing and forgiving. She writes sacred poetry for the scientific twenty-first century'.