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'''Craig Anthony Raine''', [[FRSL]] (born 3 December 1944) is an English poet. Along with [[Christopher Reid]], he is the best-known exponent of [[Martian poetry]].<ref>[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 British Council: Biography] {{webarchive|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5lU2GLwWb?url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 |date=22 November 2009 }} – "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."</ref> 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.
'''Craig Anthony Raine''', [[FRSL]] (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with [[Christopher Reid (writer)|Christopher Reid]], he is a pioneer of [[Martian poetry]], a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects.<ref>[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 British Council: Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216074837/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 |date=16 December 2010 }} – "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 (writer)|Christopher Reid]], had a widespread effect on readers and young poets alike, spawning a host of imitators."</ref> He was a fellow of [[New College, Oxford]], from 1991 to 2010 and is now [[emeritus]] professor. He was the editor of ''[[Areté]]'' from 1999 to 2020.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Raine was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, the son of Norman Edward and Olive Marie Raine.<ref name=autogenerated1>‘RAINE, Craig Anthony’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 2011 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U31792, accessed 20 April 2012]</ref> His father was a boxer who twice fought for England before working as a bomb armourer for the [[RAF]], until his early retirement with [[epilepsy]].<ref name=autogenerated3>FATE PLAYS AN ELECTRIFYING HAND, The Northern Echo, 28 October 2002</ref> He grew up in a "bookless" [[prefabricated building|prefab]] in [[Shildon]], a town near Bishop Auckland.<ref>[http://living.scotsman.com/books/Interview-Craig-Raine-author.6399577.jp Interview: Craig Raine, author - News - Scotsman.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated2>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe A life in writing | Books | The Guardian<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He won a scholarship to [[Barnard Castle School]], which was then a [[direct grant school]] where he lived as a boarder.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> Of his time there he has recalled that it seemed that everyone else's parents seemed to be: <blockquote>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.<ref name=autogenerated2 /></blockquote>
Raine was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, the son of Norman Edward and Olive Marie Raine.<ref name=autogenerated1>'RAINE, Craig Anthony', Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U31792, accessed 20 April 2012]</ref> His father was the North of England amateur [[boxing]] champion in 1937.<ref name="journal">{{cite news |title=Ex-boxer fined £100 on liquor charges |work=Newcastle Journal |date=6 January 1945}}</ref> He then worked as a bomb armourer for the [[RAF]], until forced to retire due to [[epilepsy]] caused by a skull fracture.<ref name=autogenerated3>FATE PLAYS AN ELECTRIFYING HAND, The Northern Echo, 28 October 2002</ref><ref name="journal"/> After the RAF his father worked as a pub landlord.<ref name="journal"/> Craig Raine was raised in a [[prefabricated building|prefab]] in [[Shildon]], a town near Bishop Auckland.<ref>[http://living.scotsman.com/books/Interview-Craig-Raine-author.6399577.jp Interview: Craig Raine, author – News – Scotsman.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated2>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe A life in writing {{!}} Books {{!}} The Guardian<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He won a scholarship to [[Barnard Castle School]], where he lived as a boarder.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> Of his time there he has recalled that it seemed that everyone else's parents seemed to be: <blockquote>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.<ref name=autogenerated2 /></blockquote>


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."<ref name=autogenerated3 /><ref>http://robertgraves.org/trust/print.php?id=7313</ref> At school he wrote "pimply [[Dylan Thomas]]" poems, some of which he sent to [[Philip Toynbee]], then lead reviewer at ''[[The Observer]]''.<ref name=autogenerated2 />
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."<ref name=autogenerated3 /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://robertgraves.org/trust/print.php?id=7313 |title=Archived copy |access-date=9 November 2011 |archive-date=4 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104000754/http://robertgraves.org/trust/print.php?id=7313 |url-status=dead }}</ref> At school he wrote "'pimply [[Dylan Thomas]]' poems, some of which he sent to [[Philip Toynbee]], then lead reviewer at ''[[The Observer]]''".<ref name=autogenerated2 />


Raine received his university education at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]], [[University of Oxford]], where he received a BA in English and later received his [[B.Phil]].<ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref name=BC>[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 British Council: Biography] {{webarchive|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5lU2GLwWb?url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 |date=22 November 2009 }}</ref>
Raine received his university education at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]], [[University of Oxford]], where he received a BA in English and later received his [[B.Phil]].<ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref name=BC>[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 British Council: Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216074837/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 |date=16 December 2010 }}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
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In 1972 he married [[Ann Pasternak Slater]], a now retired fellow of [[St Anne's College, Oxford]].<ref name=autogenerated1 /> They have one daughter and three sons. [[Moses Raine]] is a playwright and [[Nina Raine]] a director and playwright.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
In 1972 he married [[Ann Pasternak Slater]], a now retired fellow of [[St Anne's College, Oxford]].<ref name=autogenerated1 /> They have one daughter and three sons. [[Moses Raine]] is a playwright and [[Nina Raine]] a director and playwright.<ref name=autogenerated1 />


Craig Raine is founder and editor of the literary magazine ''[[Areté]]'' and a frequent contributor.<ref name=BC /> His works include a number of poetry collections:<ref>Nielsen Book Data at 27 November 2008</ref> ''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: ''[[Joseph Haydn|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.
Craig Raine is founder and editor of the literary magazine ''[[Areté]]'' and a frequent contributor.<ref name=BC /> His works include a number of poetry collections:<ref>Nielsen BookData at 27 November 2008</ref> ''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: ''[[Joseph Haydn|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 [[Matthew Arnold|Arnoldian]], ideas of literature and criticism".<ref name=autogenerated2 />
His friend [[Ian McEwan]] argues that Raine espouses "very strong and clear, almost [[Matthew Arnold|Arnoldian]], ideas of literature and criticism".<ref name=autogenerated2 />
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* ''A Free Translation'', Salamander, 1981
* ''A Free Translation'', Salamander, 1981
* ''Rich'', [[Faber and Faber]], 1984
* ''Rich'', [[Faber and Faber]], 1984
* ''The Prophetic Book'' (bilingual edition with Polish translation by Jerzy Jarniewicz), [[Correspondance des Arts]], 1989
* ''History: The Home Movie'', [[Penguin Books|Penguin]], 1994
* ''History: The Home Movie'', [[Penguin Books|Penguin]], 1994
* ''Change'', Prospero Poets, 1995
* ''Change'', Prospero Poets, 1995
* ''Clay: Whereabouts Unknown'', Penguin, 1996
* ''Clay: Whereabouts Unknown'', Penguin, 1996
* ''Collected Poems 1978-1999'', [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]], 1999
* ''Collected Poems 1978–1999'', [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]], 1999
* ''A la recherche du temps perdu'', Picador, 2000
* ''A la recherche du temps perdu'', Picador, 2000
* ''How Snow Falls'', 2010
* ''How Snow Falls'', 2010
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===Libretto===
===Libretto===
* ''The Electrification of the Soviet Union'', Faber and Faber, 1986, [[opera]] by [[Nigel Osborne]]
* ''The Electrification of the Soviet Union'', Faber and Faber, 1986, [[opera]] by [[Nigel Osborne]]
* ''Atonement'', opera based on Ian McEwan's [[Atonement (novel)|novel]], music by [[Michael Berkeley]], 2013<ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article7067778.ece "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</ref>


===Criticism===
===Criticism===
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* ''In Defence of T. S. Eliot'', Picador, 2000
* ''In Defence of T. S. Eliot'', Picador, 2000
* ''T. S. Eliot: Image, Text and Context'', Oxford University Press, 2007
* ''T. S. Eliot: Image, Text and Context'', Oxford University Press, 2007
* ''More Dynamite: Essays 1990-2012'', Atlantic, 2013
* ''More Dynamite: Essays 1990–2012'', Atlantic, 2013
* ''My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry'', Atlantic, 2016


===As editor===
===As editor===
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==External links==
==External links==
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* [http://www.webcitation.org/5lU2GLwWb?url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 British Council profile]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101216074837/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth212 British Council profile]
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?search=ss&firstRun=true&sText=raine&LinkID=mp67829 Portraits] at the National Portrait Gallery
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?search=ss&firstRun=true&sText=raine&LinkID=mp67829 Portraits] at the National Portrait Gallery
* [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=5254 "Bad Language: Poetry, Swearing and Translation" article by Carig Raine] in ''Thumbscrew'' magazine, No 1 - Winter 1994-5
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120112202635/http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=5254 "Bad Language: Poetry, Swearing and Translation" article by Craig Raine] in ''Thumbscrew'' magazine, No 1 – Winter 1994-5
* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe "A life in writing"], interview by Nicholas Wroe, ''[[The Guardian]]'' (17 October 2009)
* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe "A life in writing"], interview by Nicholas Wroe, ''[[The Guardian]]'' (17 October 2009)
* [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/07/interview-novel-kundera-updike "The Books Interview: Craig Raine"] ''The New Statesman'' 5 July 2010
* [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/07/interview-novel-kundera-updike "The Books Interview: Craig Raine"] ''The New Statesman'' 5 July 2010
* [http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/heartache-in-his-head/ 'Heartache in his Head'], review of ''How Snow Falls'' in ''[[The Oxonian Review]]''
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110308140108/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/heartache-in-his-head/ 'Heartache in his Head']}}, review of ''How Snow Falls'' in ''[[The Oxonian Review]]''


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Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a pioneer 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 was the editor of Areté from 1999 to 2020.

Early life

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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] Craig Raine 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

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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

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Poetry collections

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  • 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
  • The Prophetic Book (bilingual edition with Polish translation by Jerzy Jarniewicz), Correspondance des Arts, 1989
  • 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

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  • Heartbreak, Atlantic, 2010
  • The Divine Comedy, Atlantic, 2012

Drama

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

Libretto

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Criticism

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  • 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

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

References

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  1. ^ 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."
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ a b c "Ex-boxer fined £100 on liquor charges". Newcastle Journal. 6 January 1945.
  4. ^ a b FATE PLAYS AN ELECTRIFYING HAND, The Northern Echo, 28 October 2002
  5. ^ Interview: Craig Raine, author – News – Scotsman.com
  6. ^ a b c d e f A life in writing | Books | The Guardian
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 January 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ a b British Council: Biography Archived 16 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Nielsen BookData at 27 November 2008
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