Elaine Feinstein

Standard Name: Feinstein, Elaine
Birth Name: Elaine Cooklin
Married Name: Elaine Feinstein
By early 2001 EF had published fifteen novels and thirteen poetry collections, besides translation, biography, and drama, most of it for radio or television. She has given different answers to the question whether her poetry or fiction is primary. In 1985 she said that if pushed she would call herself first and foremost a poet,
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Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
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but some years later she said that whichever she was working on recently tends to be her favourite genre.
Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press, 2001.
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In most of her writing she is an interpreter, bringing work from one language or one medium into another, opening (through poems or novels) historical periods and actual events and people to the enquiring gaze of the creative imagination.
Black and white photograph of Elaine Feinstein by Kaido Vainomaa, reading at Shaar International Poetry Festival in Tel_Aviv, 2010. She is seen from the waist up, standing at a microphone, reading from a slim volume that she holds and bends back. She is wearing a shirt with a V-neck and a metal flower necklace. She has wire-framed glasses and short curly hair.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Residence Anne Stevenson
They lived at first at 27 Park Parade, opposite Jesus Green in Cambridge, England (a house which was later home to writer Elaine Feinstein and her family).
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman
Textual Production Emma Tennant
During the 1960s ET wrote for magazines like Queen and Vogue. She was founder-editor of Bananas, a journal of new writing that ran from 1975 to 1981 and attracted contributors like Angela Carter
Textual Production Anna Akhmatova
AA , at Tsarskoe Selo, composed a poem which became one of her best-known: The Grey-Eyed King, on the accidental death out hunting of a young king, which Elaine Feinstein likens to one...
Textual Production Ruth Padel
The thesis (which bears her whole name, Ruth Sofia Padel) is held by the Bodleian Library . She began rewriting it in the form of a book the same year, staying on the island of...
Textual Production Patricia Beer
For the London Review of Books, PB dealt with books by women both in her first review (on 8 November 1979, one month before the magazine first carried one of her poems), where she...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The other poets included are Kathleen Raine , Denise Levertov , Elizabeth Jennings , Elaine Feinstein , Ruth Fainlight , Sylvia Plath , Jenny Joseph , Anne Stevenson , and Fleur Adcock .
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH 's volume of autobiographical sketches, The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year, was published with engravings by John Lawrence . In May the BBC ran a 20-minute film about it on their Omnibus...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
Asked about contemporary poets who interest her, RF named two Americans (Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Anne Carson ), and in England (which she was defining rather loosely) Penelope Shuttle and Sarah Maguire , followed by...
Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW , with Elaine Feinstein , edited and published the collection New Stories 4.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Texts

Feinstein, Elaine. The Border. Hutchinson, 1984.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Celebrants. Hutchinson, 1973.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Circle. New Authors, 1970.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet, 2017.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Ecstasy of Dr. Miriam Garner. Hutchinson, 1976.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Elaine Feinstein Page. http://www.elainefeinstein.com/.
Feinstein, Elaine, and Josef Herman. The Feast of Eurydice. Next Editions in association with Faber and Faber, 1980.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Glass Alembic. Hutchinson, 1973.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Russian Jerusalem. A Novel. Carcanet, 2008.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Survivors. Hutchinson, 1982.