Elaine Feinstein is a Camden poet (born
October24, 1930).
Elaine and
Alan Brownjohn are our Honoured 'Poetic Heroes'
at the Purple Poets' HEROES ON POSTCARDS reading at the Camden Town
Hall with the Mayor of Camden, Councillor Faruque Ansari, on National Poetry
Day, October 8th 2009 (2 - 4
p.m.). Come
join them to celebrate our Borough of Camden Heroes!
Ted Hughes said of her poetry: “She is an extremely fine poet…
Reading her poems one feels cleansed and sharpened." [from a review by
John Horder of Talking To the Dead , Camden New Journal May 17 2009]
BIOGRAPHY
(source:
The
Poetry Archive)
Elaine Feinstein (b.1930) is from Bootle, Lancashire and was educated at
Newnham College, Cambridge. ... . Feinstein's early poetry bears the influence
of modernists such as Pound, but it wasn't until she began translating the
great Russian poet, Marina Tsvataeva, that she found her own voice. Much
of her material is drawn from personal experience, though set within the
wider cultural contexts of her Jewish inheritance, feminism and European
history.
She has received a Cholmondeley Award, three Arts Council Awards and was
made a Fellow of the Royal Literary Society in 1981. In 1990 she received
an honorary Doctorate from the University of Leicester for services to
literature.
Books
POETRY
Talking to the Dead
Carcanet, 2007
Collected Poems and Translations
Carcanet, 2002
Gold
Carcanet, 2000
After Pushkin (edited by Elaine Feinstein)
Folio Society & Carcanet, 1999
Daylight
Carcanet, 1997
Selected Poems
Carcanet, 1994
City Music
Hutchinson, 1990
Badlands
Hutchinson, 1987
The Feast of Eurydice
Faber & Faber/ Next Editions, 1980
Selected Poems
University Center, Michigan,
Green River Press, 1977
Some Unease and Angels
Hutchinson, 1977, 1981
The Celebrants and Other Poems
Hutchinson, 1973
At the Edge
Sceptre Press, 1972
The Magic Apple Tree
London, Hutchinson, 1971
In a Green Eye
London, Goliard Press, 1966
POEMS IN TRANSLATION
The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva,
Fifth edition (with new poems and a new introduction)
O.U.P/Carcanet.,1999
Three Russian Poets:
Margarite Aliger, Yunna Morits, Bella Akhmadulina
Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1976
The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva
London, O.U.P., 1961
Second edition, Oxford University Press, 1971
Third edition, Hutchinson, 1987. Duttons, 1987.
(New York Times Book of the Year)
NOVELS
The Russian Jerusalem
London, Carcanet, 2008
Dark Inheritance
London, Womens Press 2001
Lady Chatterley's Confession
London, Macmillan, 1996
Dreamers
London, Macmillan, 1994
London, Macmillan, 1996
Loving Brecht
London, Hutchinson, 1992
All You Need
London, Hutchinson, 1989;
New York, 1991
Mother's Girl
London, Hutchinson, 1988;
(shortlisted for 1990 L.A. Times Fiction Prize)
The Border
London, Hutchinson, 1984;
New York, 1985
The Survivors
London, Hutchinson, 1982;
New York, 1991
London, Macmillan, 1996
The Shadow Master
London, Hutchinson, 1978;
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979
The Ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner
London, Hutchinson, 1976
Children of the Rose
London, Hutchinson, 1975
(Penguin 1976)
Translated into Hebrew, 1987.
The Glass Alembic
as The Crystal Garden
London, Hutchinson, 1973,
(Penguin 1978);
New York, Dutton, 1974
The Amberstone Exit London,
Hutchinson, 1972 (Penguin 1974)
Translated into Hebrew (Keter 1984)
The Circle
London, Hutchinson, 1970
(Penguin 1973)
BIOGRAPHY
Anna of all the Russias:
The Life of Anna Akhmatova
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005
Ted Hughes - The Life of a Poet
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001
Pushkin
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1998,
Ecco U.S.
Lawrence's Women
as Lawrence and The Women
HarperCollins,
London, 1993;
New York, 1993
A Captive Lion:
The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva
Hutchinson, 1987
Bessie Smith
Lives of Modern Women Series
Penguin/Viking,
1986
TELEVISION
The Brecht Project
3 parts of a TV series based on the life of Bertolt Brecht
BBC
A Passionate Woman,
6 part series based on life of Marie Stopes
1990
For Christopher Malcolm
The Chase,
Episode Four
1988
Central TV
A Brave Face
1985
BBC, Produced by Rosemary Hill
12 part series
on the life behind
The Edwardian Country Gentlewoman's Diary
February 1984
Lunch
Produced by Rosemary Hill,
directed by Jon Amiel
1981
Breath
BBC Play for Today,
Produced by David Rose
1975
RADIO PLAYS
Adaptation of her novel,
Lady Chatterley's Confession
Book at Bedtime, 1996
Lawrence's Women in Love
(4-part adaptation)
A Winter Meeting
1994
Foreign Girls, a trilogy
1993
The Man in Her Life
1990
If I Ever Get On My Feet Again
1987
Marina Tsvetayeva: A Life
1985
A Day Off
1983
A Late Spring
1981
Echoes
1980
SHORT STORIES
The Silent Areas
London, Hutchinson, 1980
Matters of Chance
London, Covent
Garden Press, 1972
OTHER
Editor,
New Poetry, PEN, 1988
Editor, with Fay Weldon,
New Stories,
London, Hutchinson, 1979
Editor,
Selected Poems of John Clare,
London, University Tutorial Press, 1968
PUBLISHER
Carcanet
PRIZES
1970 Arts Council Grant/Award for Translation
1971 Daisy Miller Prize
1979 Arts Council Grant/Award for Translation
1981 Arts Council Grant/Award for Translation
1990 Cholmondeley Award
1997 Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Daylight
2003 Poetry Book Society Special Commendation,
Collected Poems and Translations
WEBSITE
http://www.elainefeinstein.com/
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POEM
by Elaine Feinstein
http://www.elainefeinstein.com/mp3/
mp3 file
HANDS
We first recognised each other as if we were siblings,
and when we held hands your touch
made me stupidly happy.
Hold my hand, you
said in the hospital .
You had big hands, strong hands, gentle
as those of a Mediterranean father
caressing the head of a child.
Hold
my hand , you said. I feel
I won't
die while you are here.
You took my hand on our first aeroplane
and in opera houses, or watching
a video you wanted me to share.
Hold my hand,
you said. I'll fall asleep
and won't even
know you're not there.
© Elaine Feinstein |
SOME WEBSITES FEATURING
ELAINE FEINSTEIN'S WORK:
CAMDEN NEW JOURNAL
Camden New Journal | Books:
Talking to the Dead by Elaine Feinstein
17 May 2007 by John Horder
ELAINE Feinstein's new book of poems, Talking to the Dead, is her memorial
to her dead husband Arnold, a scientist and academic.
www.thecnj.co.uk/review/051707/books051707_04.html
Camden New Journal | Books:
The Russian Jerusalem by Elaine Feinstein
29 May 2008
Elaine Feinstein tells Ruth Gorb how her romanticism about Russia has survived
experience of its grim realities
.www.thecnj.co.uk/review/2008/.../books052908_03.html
The Elaine Feinstein Page
www.elainefeinstein.com
The Poetry Archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=167
Elaine Feinstein © Orlando Project
By early 2001 Elaine Feinstein had published fifteen novels and thirteen
poetry collections, besides translation, biography, and drama.
http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=feinel
Close To The Bone
In 1997, Michael Schmidt interviewed Elaine Feinstein for PNReview
(PNR. 118, available on-line at www.elainefeinstein.com/PNR-interview.pdf).
www.poetrysociety.org.uk/lib/tmp/cmsfiles/File/.../962feinstein.pdf
Thanks to a grant by the Camden Council
Alan Brownjohn (and Elaine Feinstein)
were our Honoured 'Poetic Heroes'
at the Purple Poets'
HEROES ON POSTCARDS
National Poetry Day 2009 Reading
hosted by the Purple Poets
at the Camden Town Hall, October 8th 2009 (2 - 4 p.m.)
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