Craig Raine

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Craig Raine (born 3 December 1944) is an English poet and critic born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. He is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry.

Life

Educated at Exeter College, University of Oxford, 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 and Faber in 1981, and has been a fellow of New College, Oxford since 1991. He is married to Ann Pasternak Slater, a fellow of St Anne's.

His works include a number of poetry collections (now all out of print)^[1]: 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 two 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.

He has recently submitted the manuscript for an experimental novel in the tradition of Milan Kundera entitled The Divine Comedy^{[citation needed]}.

Craig Raine is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté. His circle includes the writers Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, and the artist Mark Alexander^{[citation needed]}.

The director and playwright Nina Raine and the playwright Moses Raine are Raine's daughter and son.

Books

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

Drama

• 1953: A Version of Racine's Andromaque, Faber and Faber, 1990

Libretto

• The Electrification of the Soviet Union, Faber and Faber, 1986

Criticism

• Haydn and the Valve Trumpet, Faber and Faber, 1990
• In Defence of T. S. Eliot, Picador, 2000
• T. S. Eliot: Image, Text and Context, Oxford University Press, 2007

As editor

• A Choice of Kipling's Prose, Faber and Faber, 1987
• Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poems, Penguin, 1992
• New Writing 7, (co-editor) Vintage, 1998

References

External links

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