Collected Poems, 1978 – 1999

Craig Raine’s first collection, “The Onion, Memory” (1977), could be said to have changed the landscape of contemporary British poetry. This, together with his second, “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” (1978) established Raine as the founder of the ‘Martian’ school where the poet forces us to see the most commonplace objects as miraculous.

Raine presented a wholly original view of the modern world further broadened by publicaton of “Rich” (1984) and his epic verse novel, ” History: the Home Movie” (1994) where the poet illuminates the details of daily lives. This was followed by “Clay. Whereabouts Unknown” in 1996.

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“The Collected Poems” confirms Raine as one of the most influential poets to have emerged in Britain since the war.