Craig Raine. Courtesy PoemHunter.
Craig Raine (born 3 December 1944) is an English poet and critic.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Raine was born in born in Bishop Auckland, county Durham, England.
His father was a fairground boxer, and Raine grew up in a "bookless" prefab in Shildon, near Bishop Auckland.[1][2]
He won a scholarship to the independent Barnard Castle School.[3] Of his time there he has recalled that it seemed that everyone else's parents seemed to be:
- accountants or surgeons or something. I couldn't say my father was an ex-boxer who did faith healing, had epileptic fits and lived off a pension. So for a while I said he was a football manager. But by the end I was inviting my friends home and they thought he was just as terrific as I did.[4]
Raine received his university education at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where he was:
- thrilled by beer at one and threepence a pint, the sexual revolution was good and I was obsessed with literature.[5][6]
Career[]
He taught at Oxford and followed a literary career as book editor for New Review, editor of Quarto, and poetry editor at the New Statesman. He became poetry editor at publishers Faber & Faber in 1981, and has been a fellow of New College, Oxford since 1991, retiring from his post as tutor in June 2010.
He is married to Ann Pasternak Slater, a retired fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Craig Raine is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté and a frequent contributor.[5] His daughter Nina Raine is a director and playwright and his son Moses is a playwright.
His works include a number of poetry collections [7]: The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), A Free Translation (1981), Rich (1984), History: The Home Movie (1994), and Clay. Whereabouts Unknown (1996). His reviews and essays are collected in 2 anthologies: Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990) and In Defence of T.S. Eliot (2000). A short critical-biographical study of Eliot, T.S. Eliot: Image, Text and Context, was published in 2007.
Writing[]
Along with Christopher Reid, Raine is the founder and best-known exponent of Martian poetry.
The British Council says of him: "It is worth recalling how The Onion, Memory (1978) and A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), Raine’s first two poetry collections, made such a spectacular impact on the then becalmed world of British poetry, seeming to set off a stylistic revolution of visual similes, wordplay and punning – even if in the long run it turned out to be a fashion. 'The Martian School', so-called by his friend James Fenton and inaugurated with another, Christopher Reid, had a widespread effect on readers and young poets alike, spawning a host of imitators."[5]
Recognition[]
Raine is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Onion, Memory. Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0192118773.
- A Journey to Greece. Sycamore Press, 1979
- A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 019211896X.
- A Free Translation. Salamander, 1981
- Rich. Faber and Faber, 1984
- History: The Home Movie. Penguin, 1994
- Change. Prospero Poets, 1995
- Clay: Whereabouts unknown. Penguin, 1996
- Collected Poems, 1978-1999. Picador, 1999
- A la recherche du temps perdu. Picador, 2000
- How Snow Falls. 2010
Novel[]
- Heartbreak. Atlantic, 2010
Play[]
- 1953: A Version of Racine's Andromaque, Faber & Faber, 1990
Non-fiction[]
- Haydn and the Valve Trumpet, Faber & Faber, 1990
- In Defence of T. S. Eliot, Picador, 2000
- T.S. Eliot: Image, Text and Context, Oxford University Press, 2007
Libretto[]
- The Electrification of the Soviet Union, Faber & Faber, 1986, opera by Nigel Osborne
- Atonement, opera based on Ian McEwan's novel, music by Michael Berkeley, 2013[8]
New College Reads to You - Craig Raine reads his own poem "Sea Urchins".
Edited[]
- Rudyard Kipling, A Choice of Kipling's Prose. Faber & Faber, 1987
- Rudyard Kipling, Selected Poems. Penguin, 1992.
- New Writing 7 (co-editor). Vintage, 1998.
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ http://living.scotsman.com/books/Interview-Craig-Raine-author.6399577.jp
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Craig Raine, British Council Literature. Web, Feb., 25, 2021.
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe
- ↑ Nielsen Book Data at 27 November 2008
- ↑ "We’ve had the book and film, now it’s Atonement the opera" by Ben Hoyle, The Times (London), 19 March 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2010
External links[]
- Poems
- Books
- Craig Raine at Amazon.com
- About
- Craig Raine at the British Council
- "Bad Language: Poetry, Swearing and Translation" article by Carig Raine in Thumbscrew magazine, No 1 - Winter 1994-5
- "A life in writing", interview by Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian (17 October 2009)
- "The Books Interview: Craig Raine" The New Statesman 05 July 2010
- 'Heartache in his Head', review of How Snow Falls in The Oxonian Review
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