{{Short description|British librarian, poet, and translator (1932–2018)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use British English|date=September 2017}} '''Alistair Elliot''' (13 October 1932 – 3 November 2018)<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/27/alistair-elliot-poet-translator-obituary/ "Alistair Elliot, poet best known for his translation of 'Medea' – obituary"]''The Daily Telegraph'', 27 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.</ref> was a British librarian, poet and translator.
==Life== Elliot was born in Liverpool, son of a Scottish family doctor and an English mother, and educated at Asheville School in the United States, Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Christ Church, Oxford.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xTG2qvxxYNsC|title = International Who's Who in Poetry 2004|last = Publications|first = Europa|date = 2003-01-01|publisher = Taylor & Francis|isbn = 9781857431780|language = en}}</ref>
Elliot was a vegetable invoice clerk in Covent Garden market, night sterilizer in a food factory, waiter, film critic, supply teacher, actor (with the English Children's Theatre under Caryl Jenner) and finally librarian in Kensington, Keele, Shiraz, and lastly at Newcastle University.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LikqVP0wSvgC|title = Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology|last = Jayyusi|first = Salma Khadra|date = 1987-01-01|publisher = Columbia University Press|isbn = 9780231052733|language = en}}</ref>
Elliot's translation of Euripides's ''Medea'' was performed in theatres in London and New York in a production by Jonathan Kent with Diana Rigg in the leading rôle.
Elliot's poems appeared in ''Oxford Poetry'',<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/oxpoetry/index/ie.html|title = gnelson.demon.co.uk|website = www.gnelson.demon.co.uk|access-date = 2016-04-11}}</ref> ''The Paris Review'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/30 |title=The Paris Review - Summer-Fall 1963 |access-date=13 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709031443/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/30 |archive-date=9 July 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and many other journals.
==Awards== * 2000 Cholmondeley Award
==Works== ===Poetry=== *''Air in the Wrong Place'', Eagle Press, 1968. * ''Contentions'', Ceolftith 38, 1977, signed edition ISBN 0 90446 1 24 6. ordinary edition ISBN 0 90446 1 21 1 * ''Kisses: Poems'' collaboration with Barry Hirst, Ceolfrith, 1978. ISBN 978-0-904461-42-8 *''Talking Back'', 1982. *''On the Appian Way'', 1984. * {{cite book| title=My country: collected poems| publisher=Carcanet| year=1989| isbn=978-0-85635-846-3 }} * {{cite book| title=Turning the Stones | publisher=Carcanet| year=1993| isbn=978-1-85754-041-3 }} * {{cite book| title=Facing Things| publisher=Carcanet| year=1997| isbn=978-1-85754-304-9 }} * {{cite book| title=The Real Poems| publisher=Shoestring Press| year=2008| isbn=978-1-904886-71-6 }} * {{cite book| title=Imaginary Lines| publisher=Shoestring Press| year=2012| isbn=978-1-907356-56-8 }} * {{cite book| title=Telling the Stones| publisher=Shoestring Press| year=2017| isbn=978-1-910323-69-4 }}
===Translation=== * {{cite book| title=The Lazarus poems| url=https://archive.org/details/lazaruspoems00hein| url-access=registration| author=Heinrich Heine|translator= Alistair Elliot| publisher=Mid Northumberland Arts Group| year=1979 | isbn=9780856352874}} * {{cite book| title=Women-Men| author=Paul Verlaine|translator= Alistair Elliot| publisher=The Sheep Meadow Press| year=1979| isbn=978-0-935296-44-0 }} * {{cite book| title=The Georgics| author=Virgil, John Dryden| editor=Alistair Elliot| publisher=Mid Northumberland Arts Group| year=1981 |isbn=978-0-904790-13-9 }} * {{cite book| title=French Love Poems | publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=1991 | isbn=978-1-85224-169-8 }} * {{cite book| title=Medea| author=Euripides|translator= Alistair Elliot| publisher=Oberon Books| year=1993 }} * {{cite book| title=Italian Landscape Poems| publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=1994| isbn=978-1-85224-247-3 }} * {{cite book| author=Paul Valéry| title=La Jeune Parque| publisher=Bloodaxe Books|translator= Alistair Elliot| year=1997| isbn=978-1-85224-387-6 }} * {{cite book| title=Roman food poems: a modern translation|translator= Alistair Elliot| publisher=Prospect Books| year=2003| isbn=978-1-903018-25-5 }} * {{cite book| author=Euripides| title=Phaethon, reconstructed from the fragments| publisher=Oberon Books|translator= Alistair Elliot| year=2008| isbn=978-1-84002-897-3 }}
===Editor=== * {{cite book| title=Poems by James I and Others: from a Manuscript Miscellany in Newcastle University Library | editor=Alistair Elliot| publisher=Eagle Press| year=1970| isbn=978-0-9500358-5-7 }}
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