Symphony for Human Transport by Lisa Samuels Kate Miller Pauline Stainer has all but

Pauline Stainer has all but perfected the art of illumination without demystification

thirty Greek poets including Dimitris Angelis

is spotted one last time: ‘a silvering wind crossing a field

and personas both real and imagined

subterranean drums and visionary apprehension in which – to quote Twin Peaks

Symphony for Human Transport by Lisa Samuels Kate Miller Pauline Stainer has all butThis book records a sustained plunge into the imaginative elixir of a dream. The dream starts with a waking vision the door of the train flew open and continues as reverberations in the sensorium, the seat of felt thought. With the sonnet as its anchor note, the symphony blends the machines body and the garden, crash and after sound. A moment in fast forward and in fast reverse, a moment suspended and dilating, a moment gathering into physical