Elaine Feinstein's Poetry

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Of ELAINE FEINSTEIN's poetry

'She is an extremely fine poet. She has a sinewy, tenacious way of exploring her subject that seems to me unique. Her simple, clean language follows the track of the nerves. There is nothing hit or miss, nothing for effect, nothing false. Reading her poems one feels cleansed and sharpened.' TED HUGHES

In a Green Eye	London, Goliard Press, 1966
The Magic Apple Tree	London, Hutchinson, 1971
At the Edge	Sceptre Press, 1972
The Celebrants and Other Poems	Hutchinson, 1973
Some Unease and Angels	Hutchinson, 1977, 1981
Selected Poems	University Center, Michigan, Green River Press, 1977
The Feast of Eurydice	Faber & Faber/ Next Editions, 1980
Badlands	Hutchinson, 1987
City Music	Hutchinson, 1990
Selected Poems	Carcanet, 1994
Daylight	Carcanet, 1997
After Pushkin (edited by Elaine Feinstein)	Folio Society & Carcanet, 1999
Gold	Carcanet, 2000
Collected Poems and Translations	Carcanet, 2002

POEMS IN TRANSLATION

The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva Second edition Third edition	London, Oxford University Press, 1971 O.U.P., 1961 Hutchinson, 1987. Duttons, 1987. New York Times Book of the Year.
Three Russian Poets: Margarite Aliger, Yunna Morits, Bella Akhmadulina	Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1976
The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, Fifth edition (with new poems and a new introduction)	O.U.P/Carcanet.,1999

Elaine Feinstein's poems have been often anthologised , and in 1999 she was included in Christopher Ricks Oxford Book of English Verse.

Gold

Elaine Feinstein's latest volume of poems, GOLD, came out in January 2000.

Gillian Pachter marvels at a work of poetic alchemy... DAILY TELEGRAPH.

'Lorenzo da Ponte was by turns an alchemist, grocer, Jew, Christian, professor, poet, adulterer and priest in training. Most know him only as Mozart's librettist. But this is not what interests Elaine Feinstein in her wonderfuly subtle tribute GOLD, which is half of her latest collection..... Gillian Pachter, Daily Telegraph

'Her distinctive voice radiates with is usual clarity and intensity... she seems to be writing with greater freedom and urgency than ever' Conor O'Callaghan, Times Literary Supplement

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Carcanet's web page about Elaine Feinstein

After Pushkin

Selected Poems

You can order Elaine Feinstein's Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1994) from Amazon.co.uk.

How to obtain Elaine Feinstein's books

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Elaine Feinstein's email address is ElaineFeinstein@compuserve.com