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Sid and Nancy: Love Kills
Hardcover; first edition; signed by author and number 6/100 of limited run. Red leather spine with gilt lettering; protected in original glassine wraps. Very good condition. AD
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First published September 1, 1986
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Craig Raine
82 books46 followersPoet and critic Craig Raine was born on 3 December 1944 in Bishop Auckland, England, and read English at Exeter College, Oxford.
He lectured at Exeter College (1971-2), Lincoln College, Oxford, (1974-5), and Christ Church, Oxford, (1976-9), and was books editor for New Review (1977-8), editor of Quarto (1979-80), and poetry editor at the New Statesman (1981). Reviews and articles from this period are collected in Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990). He became poetry editor at the London publishers Faber and Faber in 1981, and became a fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1991. He gained a Cholmondeley Award in 1983 and the Sunday Times Writer of the Year Award in 1998. He is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté.
His poetry collections include the acclaimed The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), A Free Translation (1981), Rich (1984) and History: The Home Movie (1994), an epic poem that celebrates the history of his own family and that of his wife. His libretto The Electrification of the Soviet Union (1986) is based on The Last Summer, a novella by Boris Pasternak. Collected Poems 1978-1999 was published in 1999. A new long poem A la recherche du temps perdu, an elegy to a former lover, and a collection of his reviews and essays, entitled In Defence of T. S. Eliot, were both published in 2000. Another collection of essays, More Dynamite, appeared in 2013.
Craig Raine lives in Oxford. His latest books are How Snow Falls (2010), a new poetry collection; and two novels, Heartbreak (2010), and The Divine Comedy (2012).
He lectured at Exeter College (1971-2), Lincoln College, Oxford, (1974-5), and Christ Church, Oxford, (1976-9), and was books editor for New Review (1977-8), editor of Quarto (1979-80), and poetry editor at the New Statesman (1981). Reviews and articles from this period are collected in Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990). He became poetry editor at the London publishers Faber and Faber in 1981, and became a fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1991. He gained a Cholmondeley Award in 1983 and the Sunday Times Writer of the Year Award in 1998. He is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté.
His poetry collections include the acclaimed The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), A Free Translation (1981), Rich (1984) and History: The Home Movie (1994), an epic poem that celebrates the history of his own family and that of his wife. His libretto The Electrification of the Soviet Union (1986) is based on The Last Summer, a novella by Boris Pasternak. Collected Poems 1978-1999 was published in 1999. A new long poem A la recherche du temps perdu, an elegy to a former lover, and a collection of his reviews and essays, entitled In Defence of T. S. Eliot, were both published in 2000. Another collection of essays, More Dynamite, appeared in 2013.
Craig Raine lives in Oxford. His latest books are How Snow Falls (2010), a new poetry collection; and two novels, Heartbreak (2010), and The Divine Comedy (2012).
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December 5, 2025
Sid and Nancy by Alex Cox and Abbe Wool
9 out of 10
This film is about a complex and wide ranging as one can see.
If there are moments of sheer terror, gruesome squalor and we see the nadir of human existence, it seems, we are also overawed by moments like the embrace of the two lovers, somewhere near a drug selling place, or among some destitute neighborhoods.
Sid is asking at one point:
'How long since we've had sex?
I don't remember' is the answer from Nancy, although maybe she said I don't know...
Nonetheless, their love appears to transcend the abjection in which they lived, especially, mainly or only because of the drugs they took with aplomb.
Thus, the overall sensation is bleak.
The public watches and learns what addiction can do to young people.
I am not fan and thought the Sex Pistols and Sid Vicious are the last I want to hear, especially now, when I do have all the zest, curiously and love of learning of yesteryear.
Or so I thought.
Sid and Nancy may have proved that I am still twenty one in spirit.
For I loved the performance of My Way, adapted by Vicious.
If you search YouTube, you find that this is not some fabrication made for the movie.
It is good, perhaps much more than that, electrifying for the fans of the genre and funny to think what Sinatra or his public would think of the Sid take.
They surely would take their guns out and maybe even use them.
At times hilarious was the visitor the family of Nancy.
The relatives are appalled by the near vegetative state of the musician from the Sex Pistols.
The question:
'Are you going to make an honest woman out of her is responded with...
Nancy has always been honest with me' or something to that effect.
As stated, this motion picture is overwhelming in its complicated subject.
One moment you laugh at the his family visit, only to be horrified the next by some gruesome violence.
Although this is just a biopic and we look at scenes from the life of Sid Vicious and his lover, aggression seems to be the defining trait.
They fight very often and eventually inflict not just psychological, but physical pain.
Some of it is self inflicted.
Sid cuts his chest with a razor, in front of women fans, trying to write Nancy.
But then he would use a cutting instrument on her.
This is not the only violence, for he fights journalists, other band members, everybody really.
And then punk music is not about tender nights under the moon and George Michael rhythms.
Perhaps you would want to search the net for My Way...to get the Sid Vicious Way, even if you decide not to watch the movie.
Which is on The New York Times' Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list.
https://www.listchallenges.com/new-yo...
9 out of 10
This film is about a complex and wide ranging as one can see.
If there are moments of sheer terror, gruesome squalor and we see the nadir of human existence, it seems, we are also overawed by moments like the embrace of the two lovers, somewhere near a drug selling place, or among some destitute neighborhoods.
Sid is asking at one point:
'How long since we've had sex?
I don't remember' is the answer from Nancy, although maybe she said I don't know...
Nonetheless, their love appears to transcend the abjection in which they lived, especially, mainly or only because of the drugs they took with aplomb.
Thus, the overall sensation is bleak.
The public watches and learns what addiction can do to young people.
I am not fan and thought the Sex Pistols and Sid Vicious are the last I want to hear, especially now, when I do have all the zest, curiously and love of learning of yesteryear.
Or so I thought.
Sid and Nancy may have proved that I am still twenty one in spirit.
For I loved the performance of My Way, adapted by Vicious.
If you search YouTube, you find that this is not some fabrication made for the movie.
It is good, perhaps much more than that, electrifying for the fans of the genre and funny to think what Sinatra or his public would think of the Sid take.
They surely would take their guns out and maybe even use them.
At times hilarious was the visitor the family of Nancy.
The relatives are appalled by the near vegetative state of the musician from the Sex Pistols.
The question:
'Are you going to make an honest woman out of her is responded with...
Nancy has always been honest with me' or something to that effect.
As stated, this motion picture is overwhelming in its complicated subject.
One moment you laugh at the his family visit, only to be horrified the next by some gruesome violence.
Although this is just a biopic and we look at scenes from the life of Sid Vicious and his lover, aggression seems to be the defining trait.
They fight very often and eventually inflict not just psychological, but physical pain.
Some of it is self inflicted.
Sid cuts his chest with a razor, in front of women fans, trying to write Nancy.
But then he would use a cutting instrument on her.
This is not the only violence, for he fights journalists, other band members, everybody really.
And then punk music is not about tender nights under the moon and George Michael rhythms.
Perhaps you would want to search the net for My Way...to get the Sid Vicious Way, even if you decide not to watch the movie.
Which is on The New York Times' Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list.
https://www.listchallenges.com/new-yo...
January 4, 2010
Totally desperate, sad, and grandiose true tale. Junkies like these were my heroes. WERE.
January 6, 2025
I read this a long time ago, its a classic. I enjoyed this crazy tale of love.
August 13, 2013
sad, desperate lovers..a real life tale of a fatal a attraction.
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