Craig Raine - Wikipedia Craig Raine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects.[1] He was a fellow of New College, Oxford from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor. He has been the editor of Areté since 1999. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Books 3.1 Poetry collections 3.2 Fiction 3.3 Drama 3.4 Libretto 3.5 Criticism 3.6 As editor 4 References 5 External links Early life[edit] Raine was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, the son of Norman Edward and Olive Marie Raine.[2] His father was the North of England amateur boxing champion in 1937.[3] He then worked as a bomb armourer for the RAF, until forced to retire due to epilepsy caused by a skull fracture.[4][3] After the RAF his father worked as a pub landlord.[3] He was raised in a prefab in Shildon, a town near Bishop Auckland.[5][6] He won a scholarship to Barnard Castle School, where he lived as a boarder.[6] 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.[6] Raine has commented on his education: "At Barnard Castle I was taught by an absolutely remarkable English teacher, Arnold Snodgrass, a friend of W. H. Auden at Oxford [and later Robert Graves]. There was no question that he altered my mindset on things and made me very critical."[4][7] At school he wrote "pimply Dylan Thomas" poems, some of which he sent to Philip Toynbee, then lead reviewer at The Observer.[6] Raine received his university education at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where he received a BA in English and later received his B.Phil.[6][8] Career[edit] 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, retiring from his post as tutor in June 2010. In 1972 he married Ann Pasternak Slater, a now retired fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.[2] They have one daughter and three sons. Moses Raine is a playwright and Nina Raine a director and playwright.[2] Craig Raine is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté and a frequent contributor.[8] His works include a number of poetry collections:[9] 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. His friend Ian McEwan argues that Raine espouses "very strong and clear, almost Arnoldian, ideas of literature and criticism".[6] Books[edit] Poetry collections[edit] The Onion, Memory, Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-19-211877-3. A Journey to Greece, Sycamore Press, 1979 A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-19-211896-X. 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 Fiction[edit] Heartbreak, Atlantic, 2010 The Divine Comedy, Atlantic, 2012 Drama[edit] 1953: A Version of Racine's Andromaque, Faber and Faber, 1990 Libretto[edit] The Electrification of the Soviet Union, Faber and Faber, 1986, opera by Nigel Osborne Criticism[edit] 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 More Dynamite: Essays 1990-2012, Atlantic, 2013 My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry, Atlantic, 2016 As editor[edit] A Choice of Kipling's Prose, Faber and Faber, 1987 Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poems, Penguin, 1992 New Writing 7, (co-editor) Vintage, 1998 References[edit] ^ British Council: Biography Archived 16 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine – "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." ^ a b c ‘RAINE, Craig Anthony’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 20 April 2012 ^ a b c "Ex-boxer fined £100 on liquor charges". Newcastle Journal. 6 January 1945. ^ a b FATE PLAYS AN ELECTRIFYING HAND, The Northern Echo, 28 October 2002 ^ Interview: Craig Raine, author - News - Scotsman.com ^ a b c d e f A life in writing | Books | The Guardian ^ http://robertgraves.org/trust/print.php?id=7313 ^ a b British Council: Biography Archived 16 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine ^ Nielsen BookData at 27 November 2008 External links[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to: Craig Raine British Council profile Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery "Bad Language: Poetry, Swearing and Translation" article by Craig 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 5 July 2010 'Heartache in his Head', review of How Snow Falls in The Oxonian Review v t e Lists of poets By language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Assamese Awadhi Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Danish Dutch English French German Greek (Ancient) Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kashmiri Konkani Kannada Korean Kurdish Latin Maithili Malayalam Maltese Manipuri Marathi Nepali Oriya Pashto Pennsylvania Dutch Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Rajasthani Romanian Russian Sanskrit Sindhi Slovak Slovenian Sorbian Spanish Swedish Syriac Tamil Telugu Turkic Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Welsh Yiddish By nationality or culture Afghan American Argentine Australian Austrian Bangladeshi Bosniak Brazilian Breton Bulgarian Canadian Chicano Estonian Finnish Ghanaian Greek Indian Iranian Iraqi Irish Israeli Mexican Nepalese New Zealander Nicaraguan Nigerian Ottoman Pakistani Peruvian Romani Romanian Somali South African Swedish Swiss Syrian Turkish By type Anarchist Early-modern women (UK) Feminist Lyric Modernist National Performance Romantic Speculative Surrealist War Women Authority control BNF: cb125523777 (data) GND: 119215772 LCCN: n77017129 NKC: xx0012405 NTA: 070957363 PLWABN: 9810537914405606 SELIBR: 284267 SUDOC: 034809430 VIAF: 109262065 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n77017129 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Raine&oldid=970261685" Categories: English opera librettists Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 1944 births Living people People educated at Barnard Castle School People from Shildon English male poets English male dramatists and playwrights Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Use dmy dates from January 2013 Use British English from January 2013 Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikiquote Languages Deutsch Polski Edit links This page was last edited on 30 July 2020, at 07:50 (UTC). 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