Craig Raine

Craig Raine ( born December 3, 1944 in Shildon, County Durham ) is an English author.

Craig Raine was educated as Roman Catholics. He attended Barnard Castle School, an Anglican Public School, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he later taught, before he became editor in 1981 by Faber and Faber. His first book of poems, The Onion, Memory (1978), portrays everyday objects in unusual ways, a style Raine knew nor to increase in the second volume of A Martian sends a Postcard Home (Oxford 1979).

Raine wrote the libretto for Nigel Osborne's opera The Electrification of the Soviet Union ( 1986). Raine is married to Ann Pasternak Slater since 1972 and has two children, Nina ( b. 1975, now a playwright ), and Isaac (* 1979). 2007, a short critical- biographical study of TS Eliot, TS Eliot was: Image, Text and Context published.

Craig Raine is the founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté.